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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 much of the population in the sugarcane region of El Salvador has chronic kidney disease?
(a) 1/10.
(b) 1/5.
(c) 1/7.
(d) 1/3.

2. According to a 2018 government report, approximately how many people die each year from lacking or contaminated water?
(a) 150,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 300,000.

3. In 2018, scientists revived a worm that had been frozen in permafrost for approximately how many years?
(a) 24,000.
(b) 64,000.
(c) 42,000.
(d) 34,000.

4. What percent of the world's mammals (by weight) are currently wild?
(a) 4%.
(b) 9%.
(c) 6%.
(d) 2%.

5. The author points out in "Economic Collapse" that "Every round-trip plane ticket from New York to London, keep in mind, costs the Arctic" how many more square meters of ice (147)?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from "Storytelling" means to collect or form into a mass or group?

2. Approximately how many square miles were burned by wildfires in California in 2018?

3. What term does the author use in "Crisis Capitalism" to describe the situation wherein "most people are so uncomfortable contemplating uncertainty, they will accept lesser outcomes in a bartain to avoid dealing with it" (188)?

4. What does the term "analogue" mean as used in Part I: Cascades?

5. What percentage of the world's methane emissions do freshwater lakes account for?

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