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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: "Politics of Consumption" - Part IV: The Anthropic Principle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 2018, scientists revived a worm that had been frozen in permafrost for approximately how many years?
(a) 42,000.
(b) 34,000.
(c) 24,000.
(d) 64,000.

2. Where did the U.S experience its most dramatic outbreak of waterborne disease in 1993?
(a) Milwaukee.
(b) New York.
(c) Houston.
(d) New Orleans.

3. When was the last time that the atmosphere contained 500 parts per million of carbon?
(a) 4 million years ago.
(b) 12 million years ago.
(c) 9 million years ago.
(d) 16 million years ago.

4. If the Earth's temperature rose 6 degrees Celsius what region would suffer more from heat than anywhere in the world today?
(a) The U.S. east of the Rockies.
(b) The Pacific Northwest.
(c) The U.S. west of the Rockies.
(d) The U.S. west of the Cascades.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 2014, a toxic event struck Lake Erie, when fertilizer from farms in Ohio spawned an algae bloom that cut off drinking water for what city?

2. When was David Wallace-Wells's mother born?

3. How much carbon is there currently in the air, according to the author in "Heat Death"?

4. Approximately how many square miles were incinerated by the Camp Fire in northern California in 2018?

5. How much land does Louisiana lose to the sea every hour?

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