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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many people were killed in the Chicago heat wave of 1995?
(a) 739.
(b) 234.
(c) 2,342.
(d) 345.

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

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

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

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

7. Who wrote The Water Will Come?
(a) Paul Ehrlich.
(b) E. O. Wilson.
(c) Irakli Loladze.
(d) Jeff Goodell.

8. Approximately how many square miles were incinerated by the Camp Fire in northern California in 2018?
(a) 150.
(b) 200.
(c) 250.
(d) 100.

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

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

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

12. A research team led by Ethan Coffel calculated in 2017 that the number of days warmer than what were once the warmest days of the year could grow by a factor of what by 2080?
(a) 25.
(b) 100.
(c) 75.
(d) 50.

13. 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) Teleology.
(c) Vectorology.
(d) Phylology.

14. Approximately how many square miles were burned by wildfires in California in 2018?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 1,000.

15. In the United States, leaks and theft account for an estimated loss of what percentage of freshwater?
(a) 5%.
(b) 16%.
(c) 12%.
(d) 34%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many Muslims participate in the hajj each year?

2. The author states in Part I: Cascades that all mass extinctions aside from the one that killed off the dinosaurs were caused by what?

3. Who was elected president of Brazil in 2018?

4. What percentage of the world's methane emissions do freshwater lakes account for?

5. When was the last time that the atmosphere contained 500 parts per million of carbon?

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