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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Elements of Chaos, "Heat Death" - "Drowning".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much carbon is said to be contained in the Arctic permafrost in Part I: Cascades?
(a) 2.3 trillion tons.
(b) 4.5 billion tons.
(c) 1.8 trillion tons.
(d) 4 trillion tons.

2. Who wrote the two-part book Carbon Ideologies?
(a) William Vollmann.
(b) E. O. Wilson.
(c) Irakli Loladze.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

3. How many people were killed in the Chicago heat wave of 1995?
(a) 2,342.
(b) 234.
(c) 345.
(d) 739.

4. According to the author in "Hunger," undernourishment in the world's developing countries has dropped from over 30% in 1970 to what percentage today?
(a) 15%.
(b) 24%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 10%.

5. How many full-scale carbon capture plants were there in the world in 2018?
(a) 34.
(b) 13.
(c) 18.
(d) 200.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percent of all human experience throughout history is estimated to belong to people right now, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?

2. The author states in Part I: Cascades that all mass extinctions aside from the one that killed off the dinosaurs were caused by what?

3. When was David Wallace-Wells's father born?

4. In "Hunger," the author gives a basic rule of thumb regarding climate and plants. He states that for staple cereal crops grown at optimal temperature, for every degree of warming, the yields decline by how much?

5. How many signatories are there on the Paris climate accords (as of the time of the book's publication)?

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