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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Globally, about what percentage of freshwater is used for food production and agriculture?
(a) 30-40%.
(b) 80-90%.
(c) 70-80%.
(d) 40-50%.

3. In the United States, leaks and theft account for an estimated loss of what percentage of freshwater?
(a) 12%.
(b) 16%.
(c) 5%.
(d) 34%.

4. Who is cited in Part I: Cascades as the theorist who called climate change a "hyperobject" (17)?
(a) Timothy Morton.
(b) Paul Ehrlich.
(c) Jair Bolsonaro.
(d) Irakli Loladze.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What month has traditionally marked the beginning of the rainy season in California?

2. What term refers to the moving in of bugs when trees are cut down?

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

4. How many major cities are there currently with average maximum summertime temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit or higher?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is carbon dioxide?

2. Describe the Thomas Fire. When and where did it occur and what damage did it cause?

3. What is the World Bank and when was it formed?

4. Why is the idea of shifting agriculture northward as the planet warms not a reasonable goal, based on the author's assertions in "Hunger"?

5. What is "coral bleaching" and why is it important?

6. How is the air quality index quantified? What does it relate?

7. What is the IPCC?

8. Why is wildfire different than other natural disasters in terms of American perceptions?

9. What impacts does the author describe in Part I: Cascades if the global temperature rises 3.2 degrees Celsius, as projected by the IPCC?

10. What is the Paris Agreement? When was it ratified?

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