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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: The Climate Kaleidoscope, "Storytelling" - "The Church of Technology".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary critic wrote "It is easier to imagine the end of the world that to imagine the end of capitalism" (190)?
(a) Amitav Ghosh.
(b) Fredric Jameson.
(c) William Nordhaus.
(d) Jair Bolsonaro.

2. Approximately how many people were killed by the 1918 flu?
(a) 62 million.
(b) 50 million.
(c) 25 million.
(d) 37 million.

3. National Geographic calculated that what percentage of the planet's water is available to fuel and feed its 7 billion people?
(a) 0.05%.
(b) 0.007%.
(c) 0.24%.
(d) 0.0003%.

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 think that is unlikely.
(d) A thing that can be computed numerically.

5. The United Nations estimates that how much of the global population will live in cities by 2050?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 1/2.
(c) 1/3.
(d) 2/3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the population of New Orleans in 2005 (prior to Katrina)?

2. Approximately how many separate wildfires broke out in California in 2017?

3. How many mass extinctions has the earth experienced prior to the one we are living through now, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?

4. Approximately how many people were evacuated due to Hurricane Irma?

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

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