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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Elements of Chaos, "Heat Death" - "Drowning".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has served as the President of the People's Republic of China since 2013?
(a) Sun Yatsen.
(b) Yuan Shikai.
(c) Xi Jinping.
(d) Li Yuanhong.

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

3. What does the IPCC refer to?
(a) International Protocol for Climate Change.
(b) International Panel on Climate Change.
(c) International Participation in Climate Correction.
(d) Imperial Protocol of Climate Change.

4. According to the author, the concrete and asphalt of cities absorb so much heat during the day that when it is released at night, it can raise the local temperature as much as how many degrees Fahrenheit?
(a) 16.
(b) 5.
(c) 34.
(d) 22.

5. Who wrote The Population Bomb?
(a) Irakli Loladze.
(b) Paul Ehrlich.
(c) E. O. Wilson.
(d) William Vollmann.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Roger Revelle die?

3. Who wrote the two-part book Carbon Ideologies?

4. In "Hunger," the author gives a basic rule of thumb regarding climate and plants. He states that for staple cereal crops grown at optimal temperature, for every degree of warming, the yields decline by how much?

5. What does the term "analogue" mean as used in Part I: Cascades?

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