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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how many Muslims participate in the hajj each year?
(a) 2 million.
(b) 3 million.
(c) 5 million.
(d) 1 million.

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

3. When was the Kyoto Protocol signed?
(a) 2013.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2003.
(d) 1997.

4. What term refers to the moving in of bugs when trees are cut down?
(a) Acromphromic rebuild.
(b) Anocratic proliferation.
(c) Asphyxiative regeneration.
(d) Vector proliferation.

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

6. How many natural disasters hit the Philippines between 2006 and 2013?
(a) 65.
(b) 75.
(c) 34.
(d) 85.

7. How many people were evacuated from mainland China due to the Typhoon Mangkhut?
(a) 400,000.
(b) 6.3 million.
(c) 1.4 million.
(d) 2.45 million.

8. According to a 2018 government report, how many people in India face "high to extreme water stress" (107)?
(a) 200 million.
(b) 700 million.
(c) 600 million.
(d) 100 million.

9. How many major cities are there currently with average maximum summertime temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit or higher?
(a) 164.
(b) 354.
(c) 634.
(d) 235.

10. The author states in Part I: Cascades that all mass extinctions aside from the one that killed off the dinosaurs were caused by what?
(a) Climate change produced by heat storms on the sun.
(b) Climate change produced by greenhouse gas.
(c) Asteroids.
(d) Extraterrestrial intervention.

11. With CO2 at 930 parts per million (more than double where we are today), cognitive ability declines by what percent?
(a) 34%.
(b) 16%.
(c) 12%.
(d) 21%.

12. How many full-scale carbon capture plants were there in the world in 2018?
(a) 200.
(b) 13.
(c) 18.
(d) 34.

13. 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?
(a) Seinfeld.
(b) The Honeymooners.
(c) All in the Family.
(d) I Love Lucy.

14. Who proposed the term "Half-Earth" (20)?
(a) Irakli Loladze.
(b) E. O. Wilson.
(c) Jair Bolsonaro.
(d) Gernot Wagner.

15. Who developed the work "The Great Nutrient Collapse"?
(a) William Vollmann.
(b) Paul Ehrlich.
(c) E. O. Wilson.
(d) Irakli Loladze.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many carbon emissions was China responsible for in 2017?

2. What is the current population of Jakarta (as of 2018)?

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

4. For how many years does Wallace-Wells say his mother has smoked in her lifetime?

5. 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"?

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