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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. What does the term "analogue" mean as used in Part I: Cascades?
(a) A thing that is uncertain.
(b) A thing that can be computed numerically.
(c) A thing seen as comparable to another.
(d) A think that is unlikely.

2. 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) 2015.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2000.

3. Who wrote the two-part book Carbon Ideologies?
(a) William Vollmann.
(b) Irakli Loladze.
(c) E. O. Wilson.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

4. Air conditioners and fans account for what percentage of global electricity consumption currently, according to the author in "Heat Death"?
(a) 10%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 5%.
(d) 20%.

5. When did Roger Revelle die?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2011.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is cited in Part I: Cascades as the theorist who called climate change a "hyperobject" (17)?

2. What does NOAA stand for?

3. How much land does Louisiana lose to the sea every hour?

4. How many major cities are there currently with average maximum summertime temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit or higher?

5. How many people were killed in the Chicago heat wave of 1995?

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