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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. When was Norman Borlaug born?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1934.

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

3. 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) 2015.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2000.
(d) 2013.

4. In the United States, leaks and theft account for an estimated loss of what percentage of freshwater?
(a) 16%.
(b) 34%.
(c) 12%.
(d) 5%.

5. 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?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Hamilton.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Toledo.

Short Answer Questions

1. National Geographic calculated that what percentage of the planet's water is available to fuel and feed its 7 billion people?

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

3. If we follow the path we are on today, the U.N. estimates that we are due for how many degrees of warming by 2100?

4. How many signatories are there on the Paris climate accords (as of the time of the book's publication)?

5. Approximately how many Muslims participate in the hajj each year?

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