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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. Who funded Wallace Smith Broecker's research in the 1970s?
(a) Texaco.
(b) Chevron.
(c) Exxon.
(d) DuPont.

2. Who are the authors of the book Climate Shock?
(a) Irakli Loladze and Jeff Goodell.
(b) Jair Bolsonaro and William Vollman.
(c) Paul Ehrlich and Jennifer Jones.
(d) Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman.

3. Who wrote The Water Will Come?
(a) Paul Ehrlich.
(b) Jeff Goodell.
(c) Irakli Loladze.
(d) E. O. Wilson.

4. How many people were killed during the Russian heat wave of 2010?
(a) 70,000.
(b) 95,000.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 55,000.

5. What small Northern California town was largely wiped out by the Camp Fire?
(a) Paradise.
(b) Weaverville.
(c) Montague.
(d) Douglas City.

Short Answer Questions

1. If we follow the path we are on today, the U.N. estimates that we are due for how many degrees of warming by 2100?

2. If the Earth's temperature rose 6 degrees Celsius what region would suffer more from heat than anywhere in the world today?

3. By what percentage did China's emissions grow in the first three months of 2018?

4. 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?

5. What percent of all human experience throughout history is estimated to belong to people right now, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?

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