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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. When was David Wallace-Wells's father born?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1938.

2. Who are the authors of the book Climate Shock?
(a) Jair Bolsonaro and William Vollman.
(b) Irakli Loladze and Jeff Goodell.
(c) Paul Ehrlich and Jennifer Jones.
(d) Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman.

3. The recent Great Recession (2008) lowered the global GDP by about wht percentage in a onetime shock?
(a) 2%.
(b) 16%.
(c) 12%.
(d) 9%.

4. What word from "Storytelling" means to collect or form into a mass or group?
(a) Anthropocene.
(b) Coagulate.
(c) Agglomerate.
(d) Anthropomorphize.

5. When did labor historian Eric Hobsbawm write "Whoever says Industrial Revolution, says cotton" (140)?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1975.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term used in "Storytelling" refers to action taken to prevent disease, especially be specified means or against a specified disease?

2. According to a 2018 government report, approximately how many people die each year from lacking or contaminated water?

3. Who was elected president of Brazil in 2018?

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

5. 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?

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