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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 land does Louisiana lose to the sea every hour?
(a) One acre.
(b) Two acres.
(c) One football field.
(d) One square mile.

2. Approximately how many square miles were burned by wildfires in California in 2018?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 1,500.

3. Who was elected president of Brazil in 2018?
(a) Jair Bolsonaro.
(b) Deodoro da Fonseca.
(c) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
(d) Michel Terner.

4. How many people were killed as a result of Hurricane Mitch in Central America?
(a) 11,000.
(b) 8,000.
(c) 23,000.
(d) 5,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who authored The Shock Doctrine?

2. Who wrote The Water Will Come?

3. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to people seeking "evidence for what we already understand to be true, such as the promise that human life will endure, rather than the cognitive pain of reconceptualizing our world" (188)?

4. What small town in Maryland was drowned by a "thousand-year flood" in 2016 (22)?

5. What does CCS stand for?

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