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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: The Climate Kaleidoscope, "Storytelling" - "The Church of Technology".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the country of Pakistan formed?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1942.

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

3. In 2016, a boy was killed and 20 people were infected by anthrax that was released when retreating permafrost exposed the frozen carcass of what animal?
(a) A reindeer.
(b) A tiger.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A wolf.

4. 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) 800,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 700,000.
(d) 200,000.

5. Beginning in what year were about a million Syrian refugees unleashed on Europe by a civil war inflamed by climate change, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?
(a) 2000.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2013.
(d) 2015.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to a 2016 study, from 1980-210 what percentage of conflict in the world's ethnically diverse countries began in months stamped by weather disaster/

3. How many workers have been seriously injured in the U.S. by heat alone since 1992?

4. Who wrote The Great Divergence?

5. When did James Hansen first testify before Congress about global warming?

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