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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 states in Part I: Cascades that all mass extinctions aside from the one that killed off the dinosaurs were caused by what?
(a) Climate change produced by heat storms on the sun.
(b) Extraterrestrial intervention.
(c) Climate change produced by greenhouse gas.
(d) Asteroids.

2. 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) All in the Family.
(b) The Honeymooners.
(c) Seinfeld.
(d) I Love Lucy.

3. 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?
(a) 20 times faster.
(b) 7 times faster.
(c) 10 times faster.
(d) 4 times faster.

4. What does the IPCC refer to?
(a) International Panel on Climate Change.
(b) Imperial Protocol of Climate Change.
(c) International Participation in Climate Correction.
(d) International Protocol for Climate Change.

5. What term did Wallace Smith Broecker help to popularize, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?
(a) Greenhouse gas.
(b) Global warming.
(c) Climate change.
(d) Microplastics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month has traditionally marked the beginning of the rainy season in California?

2. Who funded Wallace Smith Broecker's research in the 1970s?

3. Who is cited in Part I: Cascades as the theorist who called climate change a "hyperobject" (17)?

4. When did Roger Revelle die?

5. How many climate refugees does the U.N. project there will be by 2050?

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