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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many workers have been seriously injured in the U.S. by heat alone since 1992?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 70,000.
(d) 50,000.

2. According to the author in "Heat Death," the hottest temperature likely ever recorded in April was registered where in 2018?
(a) Iran.
(b) Afghanistan.
(c) Pakistan.
(d) Iraq.

3. Who funded Wallace Smith Broecker's research in the 1970s?
(a) Exxon.
(b) Chevron.
(c) Texaco.
(d) DuPont.

4. How many carbon emissions was China responsible for in 2017?
(a) 2.7 gigatons.
(b) 7.5 gigatons.
(c) 5.2 gigatons.
(d) 9.1 gigatons.

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

6. 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) 2013.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2000.
(d) 2011.

7. What small Northern California town was largely wiped out by the Camp Fire?
(a) Douglas City.
(b) Paradise.
(c) Weaverville.
(d) Montague.

8. For how many years does Wallace-Wells say his mother has smoked in her lifetime?
(a) 23 years.
(b) 34 years.
(c) 67 years.
(d) 58 years.

9. 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) 500.
(c) 400.
(d) 200.

10. If we follow the path we are on today, the U.N. estimates that we are due for how many degrees of warming by 2100?
(a) 4.8.
(b) 5.2.
(c) 2.3
(d) 4.5.

11. How much in damages did Hurricane Florence wreak on North Carolina in 2018?
(a) $12 billion.
(b) $20 billion.
(c) $3 billion.
(d) $17 billion.

12. How much carbon is said to be contained in the Arctic permafrost in Part I: Cascades?
(a) 1.8 trillion tons.
(b) 4 trillion tons.
(c) 2.3 trillion tons.
(d) 4.5 billion tons.

13. By what percentage did China's emissions grow in the first three months of 2018?
(a) 6%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 4%.
(d) 2%.

14. According to the author, the concrete and asphalt of cities absorb so much heat during the day that when it is released at night, it can raise the local temperature as much as how many degrees Fahrenheit?
(a) 22.
(b) 34.
(c) 16.
(d) 5.

15. Who are the authors of the book Climate Shock?
(a) Jair Bolsonaro and William Vollman.
(b) Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman.
(c) Irakli Loladze and Jeff Goodell.
(d) Paul Ehrlich and Jennifer Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the term "analogue" mean as used in Part I: Cascades?

2. Air conditioners and fans account for what percentage of global electricity consumption currently, according to the author in "Heat Death"?

3. Globally, deforestation accounts for about what percentage of carbon emissions?

4. What percent of all human experience throughout history is estimated to belong to people right now, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?

5. When was the country of Pakistan formed?

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