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

2. How many people were killed as a result of Hurricane Mitch in Central America?
(a) 23,000.
(b) 11,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 8,000.

3. What are described by the author as two structures in California that are two quintessential symbols of the imperiousness of American money in "Wildfire"?
(a) Trump Tower and Sears Tower.
(b) The Museum of Modern Art and Trump Tower.
(c) The Getty Museum and Rupert Murdoch's Bel-Air estate.
(d) The Empire State Building and the UN Headquarters.

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

5. According to the author in "Climate Conflict," "Over the last decade, researchers have even managed to quantify some of the nonobvious relationships between temperature and violence: for every half degree of warming, they say, societies will see" between what percent increase in the likelihood of armed conflict (152)?
(a) Between 20-30%.
(b) Between 30-40%.
(c) Between 10-20%.
(d) Between 5-8%.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Air conditioners and fans account for what percentage of global electricity consumption currently, according to the author in "Heat Death"?

3. A research team led by Ethan Coffel calculated in 2017 that the number of days warmer than what were once the warmest days of the year could grow by a factor of what by 2080?

4. The author points out in "Economic Collapse" that "Every round-trip plane ticket from New York to London, keep in mind, costs the Arctic" how many more square meters of ice (147)?

5. What does NOAA stand for?

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