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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Kyoto Protocol signed?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2003.
(d) 2013.

2. When was the Paris Agreement ratified?
(a) 2018.
(b) 2016.
(c) 2015.
(d) 2011.

3. For how many years does Wallace-Wells say his mother has smoked in her lifetime?
(a) 34 years.
(b) 58 years.
(c) 67 years.
(d) 23 years.

4. Who proposed the term "Half-Earth" (20)?
(a) Jair Bolsonaro.
(b) Gernot Wagner.
(c) Irakli Loladze.
(d) E. O. Wilson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Roger Revelle die?

2. 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?

3. What word from Part I: Cascades refers to the explanation of phenomenon by the purpose they serve rather than by postulated causes?

4. How much carbon is said to be contained in the Arctic permafrost in Part I: Cascades?

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

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