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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. Approximately how many barrels of oil are burned each day in the summer in Saudi Arabia, mostly to power the nation's air-conditioning?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 800,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 700,000.

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

3. How much of the population in the sugarcane region of El Salvador has chronic kidney disease?
(a) 1/10.
(b) 1/7.
(c) 1/5.
(d) 1/3.

4. How many major cities are there currently with average maximum summertime temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit or higher?
(a) 634.
(b) 164.
(c) 354.
(d) 235.

5. How many full-scale carbon capture plants were there in the world in 2018?
(a) 200.
(b) 34.
(c) 18.
(d) 13.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Water Will Come?

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

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

4. The author states in Part I: Cascades that all mass extinctions aside from the one that killed off the dinosaurs were caused by what?

5. How much carbon is said to be contained in the Arctic permafrost in Part I: Cascades?

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