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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Elements of Chaos, "Plagues of Warming" - "Systems".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) 16 million years ago.
(d) 9 million years ago.

5. A research team led by Ethan Coffel calculated in 2017 that the number of days warmer than what were once the warmest days of the year could grow by a factor of what by 2080?
(a) 25.
(b) 100.
(c) 50.
(d) 75.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The recent Great Recession (2008) lowered the global GDP by about wht percentage in a onetime shock?

3. The author notes in "Systems" that soldiers returning home from war are estimated to suffer from PTSD at rates between what percentages?

4. What are described by the author as two structures in California that are two quintessential symbols of the imperiousness of American money in "Wildfire"?

5. 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?

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