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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. 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?
(a) 50.
(b) 100.
(c) 75.
(d) 25.

2. Who has served as the President of the People's Republic of China since 2013?
(a) Yuan Shikai.
(b) Xi Jinping.
(c) Li Yuanhong.
(d) Sun Yatsen.

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

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

5. How much of the population in the sugarcane region of El Salvador has chronic kidney disease?
(a) 1/10.
(b) 1/7.
(c) 1/3.
(d) 1/5.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Water Will Come?

2. How many gallons of gasoline were released into Galveston Bay as a result of Hurricane Harvey?

3. What does NOAA stand for?

4. Who proposed the term "Half-Earth" (20)?

5. In the United States, leaks and theft account for an estimated loss of what percentage of freshwater?

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