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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Elements of Chaos, "Wildfire" - "Unbreathable Air".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2013.
(c) 2000.
(d) 2015.

2. Approximately how many barrels of oil are burned each day in the summer in Saudi Arabia, mostly to power the nation's air-conditioning?
(a) 800,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 700,000.

3. What term refers to the moving in of bugs when trees are cut down?
(a) Vector proliferation.
(b) Asphyxiative regeneration.
(c) Acromphromic rebuild.
(d) Anocratic proliferation.

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

5. How many gallons of gasoline were released into Galveston Bay as a result of Hurricane Harvey?
(a) 460,000.
(b) 253,000.
(c) 320,000.
(d) 640,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Paris Agreement ratified?

2. 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?

3. In the United States, leaks and theft account for an estimated loss of what percentage of freshwater?

4. What was the population of New Orleans in 1960?

5. Who are the authors of the book Climate Shock?

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