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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. How many premature deaths were from small-particulate pollution in 2017 according to a report from The Lancet?
(a) 8 million.
(b) 7 million.
(c) 12 million.
(d) 9 million.

2. Yellow fever is estimated to kill approximately what percentage of those infected?
(a) 2-4%.
(b) 3-8%.
(c) 10-12%.
(d) 8-10%.

3. What term refers to the moving in of bugs when trees are cut down?
(a) Asphyxiative regeneration.
(b) Anocratic proliferation.
(c) Vector proliferation.
(d) Acromphromic rebuild.

4. Who wrote The Population Bomb?
(a) William Vollmann.
(b) Irakli Loladze.
(c) Paul Ehrlich.
(d) E. O. Wilson.

5. Who wrote The Great Divergence?
(a) William Nordhaus.
(b) Jair Bolsonaro.
(c) Amitav Ghosh.
(d) Kenneth Pomeranz.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has served as the President of the People's Republic of China since 2013?

2. How much land does Louisiana lose to the sea every hour?

3. In Minnessota during the 2000s, winter ticks helped drop the moose population by what percentage?

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

5. The United Nations estimates that how much of the global population will live in cities by 2050?

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