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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. According to a 2018 government report, approximately how many people die each year from lacking or contaminated water?
(a) 300,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 150,000.

2. Approximately how many acres did the Mendocino Complex burn in 2018?
(a) One million.
(b) Two million.
(c) A quarter of a million.
(d) Half a million.

3. When did Hurricane Harvey strike land?
(a) 2017.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2007.
(d) 2012.

4. 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) 2013.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2015.

5. When did the United Nations establish its Framework on Climate Change?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1994.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1992.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the population of Delhi (as of 2018)?

2. Approximately how many square miles were burned by wildfires in California in 2018?

3. In 2014, a toxic event struck Lake Erie, when fertilizer from farms in Ohio spawned an algae bloom that cut off drinking water for what city?

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?

5. What are described by the author as two structures in California that are two quintessential symbols of the imperiousness of American money in "Wildfire"?

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