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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. Approximately how many square miles were incinerated by the Camp Fire in northern California in 2018?
(a) 200.
(b) 100.
(c) 250.
(d) 150.

2. 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) 20 times faster.
(b) 10 times faster.
(c) 4 times faster.
(d) 7 times faster.

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

4. According to a 2018 government report, how many people in India face "high to extreme water stress" (107)?
(a) 100 million.
(b) 600 million.
(c) 700 million.
(d) 200 million.

5. How many people were killed during the Indian summer of 1998?
(a) 1,300.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 7,000.
(d) 55,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does NOAA stand for?

2. How much did carbon emissions grow in the year 2017?

3. Who wrote The Water Will Come?

4. Who wrote The Population Bomb?

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

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