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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the term "analogue" mean as used in Part I: Cascades?
(a) A think that is unlikely.
(b) A thing that can be computed numerically.
(c) A thing that is uncertain.
(d) A thing seen as comparable to another.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What lake supplies much of Las Vegas's water?
(a) Lake Mead.
(b) Lake Oroville.
(c) Lake Shasta.
(d) Lake Berryessa.

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

9. How many deaths in China were attributed to smog in 2013?
(a) 1.37 million.
(b) 4.2 million.
(c) 2.54 million.
(d) 5.3 million.

10. Who was elected president of Brazil in 2018?
(a) Michel Terner.
(b) Jair Bolsonaro.
(c) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
(d) Deodoro da Fonseca.

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

12. The rate at which humankind is adding carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is how many times faster than any point in human history before the beginning of industrialization?
(a) 10 times faster.
(b) 7 times faster.
(c) 20 times faster.
(d) 4 times faster.

13. How much carbon is said to be contained in the Arctic permafrost in Part I: Cascades?
(a) 1.8 trillion tons.
(b) 4.5 billion tons.
(c) 4 trillion tons.
(d) 2.3 trillion tons.

14. How many workers have been seriously injured in the U.S. by heat alone since 1992?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 70,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the two-part book Carbon Ideologies?

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

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

4. According to the author, the concrete and asphalt of cities absorb so much heat during the day that when it is released at night, it can raise the local temperature as much as how many degrees Fahrenheit?

5. When was David Wallace-Wells's mother born?

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