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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. What percentage does grain account for the human diet globally?
(a) 25%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 30%.

2. How much of the planet's coal-power capacity does China command?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 1/5.
(c) 1/3.
(d) 1/2.

3. What is the current population of Jakarta (as of 2018)?
(a) 6 million.
(b) 5 million.
(c) 10 million.
(d) 8 million.

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

5. How much carbon is there currently in the air, according to the author in "Heat Death"?
(a) 153 parts per million.
(b) 232 parts per million.
(c) 410 parts per million.
(d) 745 parts per million.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term did Wallace Smith Broecker help to popularize, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?

2. How many workers have been seriously injured in the U.S. by heat alone since 1992?

3. Who wrote The Water Will Come?

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

5. When was the Paris Agreement ratified?

(see the answer key)

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