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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many deaths in China were attributed to smog in 2013?
(a) 4.2 million.
(b) 2.54 million.
(c) 5.3 million.
(d) 1.37 million.

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

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

4. The area referred to as America's "tornado alley" has moved how many miles in just 30 years, according to the author in "Disasters No Longer Natural"?
(a) 300.
(b) 400.
(c) 500.
(d) 200.

5. Approximately how many acres did the Mendocino Complex burn in 2018?
(a) One million.
(b) A quarter of a million.
(c) Two million.
(d) Half a million.

6. Of the 71% of the planet that is covered in water, approximately what percentage is fresh?
(a) 2%.
(b) 8%.
(c) 6%.
(d) 4%.

7. What term did Wallace Smith Broecker help to popularize, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?
(a) Greenhouse gas.
(b) Microplastics.
(c) Climate change.
(d) Global warming.

8. When did Roger Revelle die?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2011.

9. 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) 10 times faster.
(b) 4 times faster.
(c) 7 times faster.
(d) 20 times faster.

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

11. When did the United Nations establish its Framework on Climate Change?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1992.

12. What percentage does grain account for the human diet globally?
(a) 50%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 40%.

13. The United Nations estimates that how much of the global population will live in cities by 2050?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 2/3.
(c) 1/4.
(d) 1/3.

14. When did Hurricane Harvey strike land?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2007.
(c) 2003.
(d) 2017.

15. What small town in Maryland was drowned by a "thousand-year flood" in 2016 (22)?
(a) Ellicott City.
(b) Wilson.
(c) Warren.
(d) Montague.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many separate wildfires broke out in California in 2017?

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

3. According to a 2018 government report, how many people in India face "high to extreme water stress" (107)?

4. Approximately how many barrels of oil are burned each day in the summer in Saudi Arabia, mostly to power the nation's air-conditioning?

5. 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?

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