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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What word from Part I: Cascades refers to the explanation of phenomenon by the purpose they serve rather than by postulated causes?

3. Who funded Wallace Smith Broecker's research in the 1970s?

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

5. The rate at which humankind is adding carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is how many times faster than any point in human history before the beginning of industrialization?

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