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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the term "analogue" mean as used in Part I: Cascades?
(a) A think that is unlikely.
(b) A thing that can be computed numerically.
(c) A thing seen as comparable to another.
(d) A thing that is uncertain.

2. Who funded Wallace Smith Broecker's research in the 1970s?
(a) Texaco.
(b) Exxon.
(c) Chevron.
(d) DuPont.

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

4. When was the last time that the atmosphere contained 500 parts per million of carbon?
(a) 9 million years ago.
(b) 16 million years ago.
(c) 4 million years ago.
(d) 12 million years ago.

5. When did Roger Revelle die?
(a) 1991.
(b) 2011.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2001.

Short Answer Questions

1. What small Northern California town was largely wiped out by the Camp Fire?

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

3. If we follow the path we are on today, the U.N. estimates that we are due for how many degrees of warming by 2100?

4. When did the United Nations establish its Framework on Climate Change?

5. When was David Wallace-Wells's mother born?

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