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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 thing that is uncertain.
(b) A thing seen as comparable to another.
(c) A think that is unlikely.
(d) A thing that can be computed numerically.

2. When was David Wallace-Wells's mother born?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1945.

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

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

5. Who are the authors of the book Climate Shock?
(a) Paul Ehrlich and Jennifer Jones.
(b) Irakli Loladze and Jeff Goodell.
(c) Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman.
(d) Jair Bolsonaro and William Vollman.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. How many people were evacuated from mainland China due to the Typhoon Mangkhut?

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