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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was David Wallace-Wells's father born?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1967.

3. How many climate refugees does the U.N. project there will be by 2050?
(a) 200 million.
(b) 250 million.
(c) 150 million.
(d) 100 million.

4. What was the population of New Orleans in 1960?
(a) 600,000.
(b) 2 million.
(c) 700,000.
(d) 400,000.

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

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

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

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

9. What is the population of Delhi (as of 2018)?
(a) 45 million.
(b) 26 million.
(c) 13 million.
(d) 14 million.

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

11. How much carbon is there currently in the air, according to the author in "Heat Death"?
(a) 745 parts per million.
(b) 232 parts per million.
(c) 153 parts per million.
(d) 410 parts per million.

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

13. 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) Cleveland.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Toledo.
(d) Hamilton.

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

15. How much of the population in the sugarcane region of El Salvador has chronic kidney disease?
(a) 1/5.
(b) 1/10.
(c) 1/3.
(d) 1/7.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Roger Revelle die?

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

4. National Geographic calculated that what percentage of the planet's water is available to fuel and feed its 7 billion people?

5. Who funded Wallace Smith Broecker's research in the 1970s?

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