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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. In 2016, a boy was killed and 20 people were infected by anthrax that was released when retreating permafrost exposed the frozen carcass of what animal?
(a) A tiger.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A wolf.
(d) A reindeer.

2. How much did carbon emissions grow in the year 2017?
(a) 0.5%.
(b) 0.3%.
(c) 1.4%.
(d) 2.3%.

3. What percent of all human experience throughout history is estimated to belong to people right now, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?
(a) 12%.
(b) 3%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 8%.

4. The author states in "Climate Conflict" that climate change has already elevated Africa's risk of conflict by more than what percentage?
(a) 5.%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 20%.

5. How many major cities are there currently with average maximum summertime temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit or higher?
(a) 354.
(b) 634.
(c) 235.
(d) 164.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long can a person with kidney failure expect to live with dialysis?

2. In 2018, the World Bank estimated that the current path of carbon emissions would sharply diminish the living condition of how many people living throughout South Asia?

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?

4. Approximately how many acres did the Mendocino Complex burn in 2018?

5. The recent Great Recession (2008) lowered the global GDP by about wht percentage in a onetime shock?

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