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

2. How much carbon is said to be contained in the Arctic permafrost in Part I: Cascades?
(a) 2.3 trillion tons.
(b) 4.5 billion tons.
(c) 4 trillion tons.
(d) 1.8 trillion tons.

3. When did the United Nations establish its Framework on Climate Change?
(a) 1994.
(b) 2001.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1999.

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

5. 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 greenhouse gas.
(b) Climate change produced by heat storms on the sun.
(c) Extraterrestrial intervention.
(d) Asteroids.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Kyoto Protocol signed?

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

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

4. 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?

5. What percent of all human experience throughout history is estimated to belong to people right now, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?

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