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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Seinfeld.
(b) I Love Lucy.
(c) All in the Family.
(d) The Honeymooners.

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

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

4. 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?
(a) 7 times faster.
(b) 10 times faster.
(c) 4 times faster.
(d) 20 times faster.

5. What small town in Maryland was drowned by a "thousand-year flood" in 2016 (22)?
(a) Wilson.
(b) Montague.
(c) Warren.
(d) Ellicott City.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. When was the Kyoto Protocol signed?

4. What month has traditionally marked the beginning of the rainy season in California?

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

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