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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) 2011.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2013.
(d) 2000.

4. What percentage does grain account for the human diet globally?
(a) 40%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 30%.

5. Who developed the work "The Great Nutrient Collapse"?
(a) Irakli Loladze.
(b) Paul Ehrlich.
(c) William Vollmann.
(d) E. O. Wilson.

6. What was the population of New Orleans in 1960?
(a) 2 million.
(b) 600,000.
(c) 700,000.
(d) 400,000.

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

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

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

10. When was the country of Pakistan formed?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1971.

11. Globally, deforestation accounts for about what percentage of carbon emissions?
(a) 18%.
(b) 12%.
(c) 8%.
(d) 5%.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What percent of all human experience throughout history is estimated to belong to people right now, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?

2. Who was elected president of Brazil in 2018?

3. Globally, about what percentage of freshwater is used for food production and agriculture?

4. 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?

5. How many full-scale carbon capture plants were there in the world in 2018?

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