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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) 600,000.
(b) 700,000.
(c) 400,000.
(d) 2 million.

2. 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?
(a) Toledo.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Hamilton.
(d) Cleveland.

3. What did Donald Trump notoriously toss to members of a crowd during a press conference in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria?
(a) Hats.
(b) Political signs.
(c) Balloons.
(d) Paper towels.

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

5. 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) 2000.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2015.

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

7. Who is cited in Part I: Cascades as the theorist who called climate change a "hyperobject" (17)?
(a) Paul Ehrlich.
(b) Irakli Loladze.
(c) Timothy Morton.
(d) Jair Bolsonaro.

8. What does NOAA stand for?
(a) Nautical Organization of Air and Aviation.
(b) National Organization for Aviation and Administration.
(c) National Organization of American Atmosphere.
(d) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

9. Who has served as the President of the People's Republic of China since 2013?
(a) Li Yuanhong.
(b) Sun Yatsen.
(c) Xi Jinping.
(d) Yuan Shikai.

10. What does CCS stand for?
(a) Climate change standards.
(b) Carbon capture and study.
(c) Carbon capture and storage.
(d) Climate control standards.

11. When was the country of Pakistan formed?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1947.

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

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

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

15. How many people were killed during the Russian heat wave of 2010?
(a) 95,000.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 70,000.
(d) 55,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many acres did the Mendocino Complex burn in 2018?

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

3. What lake supplies much of Las Vegas's water?

4. How many people were killed during the Indian summer of 1998?

5. By what percentage did China's emissions grow in the first three months of 2018?

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