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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 many people were killed around the world by inland flooding between 1995 and 2015?
(a) 234,000.
(b) 157,000.
(c) 633,000.
(d) 142,000.

2. What percent of the world's mammals (by weight) are currently wild?
(a) 6%.
(b) 9%.
(c) 2%.
(d) 4%.

3. How many people were killed in the Chicago heat wave of 1995?
(a) 739.
(b) 345.
(c) 2,342.
(d) 234.

4. The Chinese "airpocalypse" of 2013 led to a peak Air Quality Index of what?
(a) 686.
(b) 846.
(c) 473.
(d) 993.

5. When was the country of Pakistan formed?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1962.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many gallons of gasoline were released into Galveston Bay as a result of Hurricane Harvey?

2. Who wrote in her book Motherhood, "The egoism of child-bearing is like the egoism of colonizing a country" (164)?

3. What small Northern California town was largely wiped out by the Camp Fire?

4. When did labor historian Eric Hobsbawm write "Whoever says Industrial Revolution, says cotton" (140)?

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

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