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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 term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to "the tendency to choose the present option over alternatives" (189)?
(a) Default effect.
(b) The ambiguity effect.
(c) Confirmation bias.
(d) Anthropocentric thinking.

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

3. 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)?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

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

5. Who wrote The Great Divergence?
(a) Jair Bolsonaro.
(b) Kenneth Pomeranz.
(c) William Nordhaus.
(d) Amitav Ghosh.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1850, the area of Glacier National Park had 150 glaciers. How many are left today?

2. 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?

3. What is the current population of Jakarta (as of 2018)?

4. Approximately how many Muslims participate in the hajj each year?

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

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