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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to a 2018 government report, approximately how many people die each year from lacking or contaminated water?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 150,000.
(c) 300,000.
(d) 100,000.

2. When was the last time that the atmosphere contained 500 parts per million of carbon?
(a) 12 million years ago.
(b) 9 million years ago.
(c) 16 million years ago.
(d) 4 million years ago.

3. For how many years does Wallace-Wells say his mother has smoked in her lifetime?
(a) 23 years.
(b) 34 years.
(c) 58 years.
(d) 67 years.

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

5. 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 U.S. west of the Cascades.
(c) The U.S. west of the Rockies.
(d) The Pacific Northwest.

6. Approximately how many square miles were burned by wildfires in California in 2018?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 2,500.

7. With CO2 at 930 parts per million (more than double where we are today), cognitive ability declines by what percent?
(a) 21%.
(b) 34%.
(c) 12%.
(d) 16%.

8. What small Northern California town was largely wiped out by the Camp Fire?
(a) Weaverville.
(b) Montague.
(c) Douglas City.
(d) Paradise.

9. 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) 7 times faster.
(b) 4 times faster.
(c) 20 times faster.
(d) 10 times faster.

10. 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) 10%.
(c) 24%.
(d) 15%.

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

12. The Chinese "airpocalypse" of 2013 led to a peak Air Quality Index of what?
(a) 993.
(b) 686.
(c) 473.
(d) 846.

13. 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) 2015.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2000.

14. How many people were evacuated from mainland China due to the Typhoon Mangkhut?
(a) 1.4 million.
(b) 2.45 million.
(c) 6.3 million.
(d) 400,000.

15. What small town in Maryland was drowned by a "thousand-year flood" in 2016 (22)?
(a) Montague.
(b) Warren.
(c) Wilson.
(d) Ellicott City.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hurricane Harvey strike land?

2. Of the 71% of the planet that is covered in water, approximately what percentage is fresh?

3. What was the population of New Orleans in 1960?

4. What did Donald Trump notoriously toss to members of a crowd during a press conference in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria?

5. How much of the planet's coal-power capacity does China command?

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