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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Cascades.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author asserts in Part I: Cascades that the majority of carbon burning produced by humans has occurred since the premiere of what television show?
(a) The Honeymooners.
(b) All in the Family.
(c) I Love Lucy.
(d) Seinfeld.

2. What small Northern California town was largely wiped out by the Camp Fire?
(a) Douglas City.
(b) Weaverville.
(c) Montague.
(d) Paradise.

3. How many people were evacuated from mainland China due to the Typhoon Mangkhut?
(a) 6.3 million.
(b) 2.45 million.
(c) 1.4 million.
(d) 400,000.

4. When did Hurricane Harvey strike land?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2017.
(c) 2003.
(d) 2007.

5. Beginning in what year were about a million Syrian refugees unleashed on Europe by a civil war inflamed by climate change, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2000.
(d) 2013.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many mass extinctions has the earth experienced prior to the one we are living through now, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?

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

3. For how many years does Wallace-Wells say his mother has smoked in her lifetime?

4. The rate at which humankind is adding carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is how many times faster than any point in human history before the beginning of industrialization?

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

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