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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. Who wrote The Population Bomb?
(a) Irakli Loladze.
(b) William Vollmann.
(c) E. O. Wilson.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

2. Where did Guy McPherson begin his career as a conservation biologist?
(a) New York University.
(b) The University of Arizona.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The University of California.

3. The author points out in "Economic Collapse" that "Every round-trip plane ticket from New York to London, keep in mind, costs the Arctic" how many more square meters of ice (147)?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

4. What lake supplies much of Las Vegas's water?
(a) Lake Shasta.
(b) Lake Oroville.
(c) Lake Mead.
(d) Lake Berryessa.

5. Who has served as the President of the People's Republic of China since 2013?
(a) Yuan Shikai.
(b) Li Yuanhong.
(c) Sun Yatsen.
(d) Xi Jinping.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What percentage does grain account for the human diet globally?

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

4. When did Roger Revelle die?

5. What word from "Storytelling" means to collect or form into a mass or group?

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