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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 month has traditionally marked the beginning of the rainy season in California?
(a) December.
(b) February.
(c) January.
(d) November.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. When was the last time that the atmosphere contained 500 parts per million of carbon?

4. What does the IPCC refer to?

5. The author asserts in Part I: Cascades that the majority of carbon burning produced by humans has occurred since the premiere of what television show?

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