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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 the last time that the atmosphere contained 500 parts per million of carbon?
(a) 9 million years ago.
(b) 4 million years ago.
(c) 16 million years ago.
(d) 12 million years ago.

2. What is the population of Delhi (as of 2018)?
(a) 26 million.
(b) 14 million.
(c) 45 million.
(d) 13 million.

3. When did the United Nations establish its Framework on Climate Change?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2001.

4. According to a 2018 study by the Union of Concerned Scientists, how many American homes and businesses will suffer chronic flooding by 2100?
(a) 4.2 million.
(b) 1.7 million.
(c) 1.3 million.
(d) 2.4 million.

5. According to the author, almost how many people are displace and wandering the planet right now as a result of political and social instability (154)?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 50 million.
(c) 70 million.
(d) 40 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. If the Earth's temperature rose 6 degrees Celsius what region would suffer more from heat than anywhere in the world today?

2. 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?

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

4. Yellow fever is estimated to kill approximately what percentage of those infected?

5. In "Hunger," the author gives a basic rule of thumb regarding climate and plants. He states that for staple cereal crops grown at optimal temperature, for every degree of warming, the yields decline by how much?

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