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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Elements of Chaos, "Plagues of Warming" - "Systems".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Today (as of 2018), the U.S. climate hovers around what temperature?
(a) 14.2 degrees Celcius.
(b) 13.4 degrees Celcius.
(c) 12.6 degrees Celcius.
(d) 13.9 degrees Celcius.

2. How many acres did the Thomas Fire grow in one day in 2017?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 30,000.

3. Who wrote in her book Motherhood, "The egoism of child-bearing is like the egoism of colonizing a country" (164)?
(a) E. O. Wilson.
(b) Jair Bolsonaro.
(c) Paul Ehrlich.
(d) Sheila Heti.

4. When was a 32,000-year-old "extremophile" bacteria revived?
(a) 2005.
(b) 2013.
(c) 2016.
(d) 2007.

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) Toledo.
(b) Hamilton.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Cleveland.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What small Northern California town was largely wiped out by the Camp Fire?

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

5. How many premature deaths were from small-particulate pollution in 2017 according to a report from The Lancet?

(see the answer key)

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