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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Elements of Chaos, "Heat Death" - "Drowning".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many people were evacuated from mainland China due to the Typhoon Mangkhut?
(a) 2.45 million.
(b) 1.4 million.
(c) 6.3 million.
(d) 400,000.

3. How much carbon is there currently in the air, according to the author in "Heat Death"?
(a) 745 parts per million.
(b) 410 parts per million.
(c) 232 parts per million.
(d) 153 parts per million.

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

5. The author states in Part I: Cascades that all mass extinctions aside from the one that killed off the dinosaurs were caused by what?
(a) Climate change produced by heat storms on the sun.
(b) Extraterrestrial intervention.
(c) Asteroids.
(d) Climate change produced by greenhouse gas.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were killed in the Chicago heat wave of 1995?

2. The United Nations estimates that how much of the global population will live in cities by 2050?

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. When was David Wallace-Wells's father born?

5. What word from Part I: Cascades refers to the explanation of phenomenon by the purpose they serve rather than by postulated causes?

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