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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 much of the planet's coal-power capacity does China command?
(a) 1/5.
(b) 1/4.
(c) 1/3.
(d) 1/2.

2. When was David Wallace-Wells's mother born?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1953.

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

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

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

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. How many signatories are there on the Paris climate accords (as of the time of the book's publication)?

3. In "Hunger," the author gives a basic rule of thumb regarding climate and plants. He states that for staple cereal crops grown at optimal temperature, for every degree of warming, the yields decline by how much?

4. According to a 2018 government report, how many people in India face "high to extreme water stress" (107)?

5. What is the population of Delhi (as of 2018)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is water demand from the global food system, industry, and energy projected to increase over the next three decades?

2. What is "wet-bulb temperature"?

3. What is the UNFCCC? When was it adopted?

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

5. What discovery did Irakli Loladze make regarding human nutrition and climate change?

6. How did Hurricane Harvey impact Houston environmentally?

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

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

9. Who wrote Silent Spring and what is the subject of this book?

10. Why did Hurrican Maria demonstrate one of "the uglier aspects of our climate blindness" (98)?

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