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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the population of New Orleans in 1960?
(a) 400,000.
(b) 600,000.
(c) 2 million.
(d) 700,000.

2. Who wrote the two-part book Carbon Ideologies?
(a) E. O. Wilson.
(b) William Vollmann.
(c) Irakli Loladze.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

3. What percentage of the world's methane emissions do freshwater lakes account for?
(a) 16%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 5%.
(d) 12%.

4. The rate at which humankind is adding carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is how many times faster than any point in human history before the beginning of industrialization?
(a) 20 times faster.
(b) 7 times faster.
(c) 10 times faster.
(d) 4 times faster.

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

6. What word from Part I: Cascades refers to the explanation of phenomenon by the purpose they serve rather than by postulated causes?
(a) Phylology.
(b) Teleology.
(c) Endography.
(d) Vectorology.

7. What are described by the author as two structures in California that are two quintessential symbols of the imperiousness of American money in "Wildfire"?
(a) Trump Tower and Sears Tower.
(b) The Museum of Modern Art and Trump Tower.
(c) The Empire State Building and the UN Headquarters.
(d) The Getty Museum and Rupert Murdoch's Bel-Air estate.

8. When was Norman Borlaug born?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1934.

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

10. How many gallons of gasoline were released into Galveston Bay as a result of Hurricane Harvey?
(a) 320,000.
(b) 253,000.
(c) 640,000.
(d) 460,000.

11. How much did carbon emissions grow in the year 2017?
(a) 0.3%.
(b) 0.5%.
(c) 1.4%.
(d) 2.3%.

12. Beginning in what year were about a million Syrian refugees unleashed on Europe by a civil war inflamed by climate change, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2013.
(d) 2000.

13. What month has traditionally marked the beginning of the rainy season in California?
(a) January.
(b) February.
(c) November.
(d) December.

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

15. When was David Wallace-Wells's mother born?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hurricane Harvey strike land?

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

3. The author asserts in Part I: Cascades that the majority of carbon burning produced by humans has occurred since the premiere of what television show?

4. How long can a person with kidney failure expect to live with dialysis?

5. What does the IPCC refer to?

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