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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the current population of Jakarta (as of 2018)?
(a) 6 million.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 8 million.
(d) 5 million.

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

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

4. How many premature deaths were from small-particulate pollution in 2017 according to a report from The Lancet?
(a) 9 million.
(b) 8 million.
(c) 12 million.
(d) 7 million.

5. How many mass extinctions has the earth experienced prior to the one we are living through now, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

6. In "Hunger," the author gives a basic rule of thumb regarding climate and plants. He states that for staple cereal crops grown at optimal temperature, for every degree of warming, the yields decline by how much?
(a) 5%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 15%.

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

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

9. According to the author in "Hunger," undernourishment in the world's developing countries has dropped from over 30% in 1970 to what percentage today?
(a) 20%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 24%.

10. 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.

11. What are described by the author as two structures in California that are two quintessential symbols of the imperiousness of American money in "Wildfire"?
(a) The Museum of Modern Art and Trump Tower.
(b) The Getty Museum and Rupert Murdoch's Bel-Air estate.
(c) Trump Tower and Sears Tower.
(d) The Empire State Building and the UN Headquarters.

12. What does the IPCC refer to?
(a) International Participation in Climate Correction.
(b) International Panel on Climate Change.
(c) International Protocol for Climate Change.
(d) Imperial Protocol of Climate Change.

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

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

15. 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) 2015.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2013.
(d) 2000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many workers have been seriously injured in the U.S. by heat alone since 1992?

2. How many pounds of grain does it take to produce a single pound of hamburger meat?

3. How much did carbon emissions grow in the year 2017?

4. Who wrote The Population Bomb?

5. The United Nations estimates that how much of the global population will live in cities by 2050?

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