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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) 64,000.
(d) 24,000.

2. In 2018, the World Bank estimated that the current path of carbon emissions would sharply diminish the living condition of how many people living throughout South Asia?
(a) 800 million.
(b) 700 million.
(c) 500 million.
(d) 900 million.

3. In 1850, the area of Glacier National Park had 150 glaciers. How many are left today?
(a) 36.
(b) 12.
(c) 26.
(d) 18.

4. 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.

5. Who authored The Shock Doctrine?
(a) Jair Bolsonaro.
(b) Amitav Ghosh.
(c) William Nordhaus.
(d) Naomi Klein.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Learning to Die in the Anthropocene and We're Doomed. Now What?

2. When did Hurricane Andrew hit Florida?

3. Who is the author of The Progress of This Storm?

4. Who is cited in Part I: Cascades as the theorist who called climate change a "hyperobject" (17)?

5. What percent of the world's landmass was altered by humans between 1992 and 2015?

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