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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: The Climate Kaleidoscope, "Storytelling" - "The Church of Technology".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Paris Agreement ratified?
(a) 2016.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2018.
(d) 2015.

2. A research team led by Ethan Coffel calculated in 2017 that the number of days warmer than what were once the warmest days of the year could grow by a factor of what by 2080?
(a) 100.
(b) 25.
(c) 75.
(d) 50.

3. Who wrote in her book Motherhood, "The egoism of child-bearing is like the egoism of colonizing a country" (164)?
(a) Paul Ehrlich.
(b) Jair Bolsonaro.
(c) Sheila Heti.
(d) E. O. Wilson.

4. In Minnessota during the 2000s, winter ticks helped drop the moose population by what percentage?
(a) 23%.
(b) 34%.
(c) 58%.
(d) 15%.

5. Approximately how many people were evacuated due to Hurricane Irma?
(a) 7 million.
(b) 2 million.
(c) 5 million.
(d) 1 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in "Heat Death," the hottest temperature likely ever recorded in April was registered where in 2018?

2. When was a 32,000-year-old "extremophile" bacteria revived?

3. How many deaths in China were attributed to smog in 2013?

4. What are described by the author as two structures in California that are two quintessential symbols of the imperiousness of American money in "Wildfire"?

5. 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?

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