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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. How much money in damages did Typhoon Mangkhut wreak on the Philippines and Hong Kong in 2018?
(a) $50 million.
(b) $500,000.
(c) $1 billion.
(d) $5 million.

2. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, what percent of evacuees exceeded the diagnosit threshold for acute stress disorder?
(a) 62%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 74%.
(d) 35%.

3. The author states in Part I: Cascades that all mass extinctions aside from the one that killed off the dinosaurs were caused by what?
(a) Climate change produced by greenhouse gas.
(b) Extraterrestrial intervention.
(c) Climate change produced by heat storms on the sun.
(d) Asteroids.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was elected president of Brazil in 2018?

2. How much of the planet's coal-power capacity does China command?

3. Who wrote the book-length essay The Great Derangement?

4. If we follow the path we are on today, the U.N. estimates that we are due for how many degrees of warming by 2100?

5. What country has the fifth-highest homicate rage in the world today (as of 2018)?

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