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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Roger Revelle die?

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

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

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

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