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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people were killed in the Chicago heat wave of 1995?
(a) 345.
(b) 234.
(c) 2,342.
(d) 739.

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

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

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

5. 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?
(a) 4.5.
(b) 5.2.
(c) 2.3
(d) 4.8.

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

7. How many people were killed around the world by inland flooding between 1995 and 2015?
(a) 234,000.
(b) 157,000.
(c) 633,000.
(d) 142,000.

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

9. According to a 2018 government report, how many people in India face "high to extreme water stress" (107)?
(a) 700 million.
(b) 600 million.
(c) 100 million.
(d) 200 million.

10. 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) 10 times faster.
(c) 20 times faster.
(d) 4 times faster.

11. 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) 24%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 20%.

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

13. By what percentage did China's emissions grow in the first three months of 2018?
(a) 2%.
(b) 6%.
(c) 4%.
(d) 10%.

14. 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) 2000.
(d) 2011.

15. How much money in damages did Typhoon Mangkhut wreak on the Philippines and Hong Kong in 2018?
(a) $1 billion.
(b) $5 million.
(c) $50 million.
(d) $500,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many square miles were burned by wildfires in California in 2018?

2. 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?

3. How many people were evacuated from mainland China due to the Typhoon Mangkhut?

4. How much of the population in the sugarcane region of El Salvador has chronic kidney disease?

5. Who are the authors of the book Climate Shock?

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