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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. Approximately how many square miles were incinerated by the Camp Fire in northern California in 2018?
(a) 100.
(b) 200.
(c) 250.
(d) 150.

2. How many natural disasters hit the Philippines between 2006 and 2013?
(a) 34.
(b) 75.
(c) 65.
(d) 85.

3. How much did carbon emissions grow in the year 2017?
(a) 1.4%.
(b) 0.3%.
(c) 2.3%.
(d) 0.5%.

4. What word from Part I: Cascades refers to the explanation of phenomenon by the purpose they serve rather than by postulated causes?
(a) Phylology.
(b) Vectorology.
(c) Endography.
(d) Teleology.

5. 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?
(a) Toledo.
(b) Hamilton.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Detroit.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were killed during the Indian summer of 1998?

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

3. Who is cited in Part I: Cascades as the theorist who called climate change a "hyperobject" (17)?

4. What term did Wallace Smith Broecker help to popularize, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?

5. For how many years does Wallace-Wells say his mother has smoked in her lifetime?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Hurricane Harvey impact Houston environmentally?

2. What does the United Nations project for food supply and demand in 2050?

3. How is the freshwater that is available used by civilization (i.e.: What percentages are devoted to different uses)?

4. What is atmospheric particulate matter?

5. In "Drowning," the author cites a 2018 study on the melt rate of the Antarctic ice sheet. What did this study show?

6. How do wildfires affect greenhouse gas emissions?

7. How have the planet's heat waves changed since 1980?

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

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

10. Who was Wallace Smith Broecker and why does the author reference him in Part I: Cascades?

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