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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 developed the work "The Great Nutrient Collapse"?
(a) Irakli Loladze.
(b) William Vollmann.
(c) E. O. Wilson.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

2. How many workers have been seriously injured in the U.S. by heat alone since 1992?
(a) 70,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 80,000.

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

4. According to the author in "Heat Death," the hottest temperature likely ever recorded in April was registered where in 2018?
(a) Iran.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Pakistan.
(d) Afghanistan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long can a person with kidney failure expect to live with dialysis?

2. For how many years does Wallace-Wells say his mother has smoked in her lifetime?

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

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

5. 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?

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