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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote The Population Bomb?
(a) Irakli Loladze.
(b) E. O. Wilson.
(c) William Vollmann.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

4. In 1850, the area of Glacier National Park had 150 glaciers. How many are left today?
(a) 18.
(b) 36.
(c) 12.
(d) 26.

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

6. The author asserts in Part I: Cascades that the majority of carbon burning produced by humans has occurred since the premiere of what television show?
(a) The Honeymooners.
(b) All in the Family.
(c) Seinfeld.
(d) I Love Lucy.

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

8. If the Earth's temperature rose 6 degrees Celsius what region would suffer more from heat than anywhere in the world today?
(a) The U.S. east of the Rockies.
(b) The Pacific Northwest.
(c) The U.S. west of the Rockies.
(d) The U.S. west of the Cascades.

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

10. 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?
(a) 22.
(b) 34.
(c) 16.
(d) 5.

11. How long can a person with kidney failure expect to live with dialysis?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 2 years.

12. When did Roger Revelle die?
(a) 2011.
(b) 1991.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1999.

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

14. 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) 4 times faster.
(b) 7 times faster.
(c) 10 times faster.
(d) 20 times faster.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. If we follow the path we are on today, the U.N. estimates that we are due for how many degrees of warming by 2100?

4. The Chinese "airpocalypse" of 2013 led to a peak Air Quality Index of what?

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?

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