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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: "Politics of Consumption" - Part IV: The Anthropic Principle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people were killed during the Indian summer of 1998?
(a) 55,000.
(b) 1,300.
(c) 7,000.
(d) 2,500.

2. Who developed the work "The Great Nutrient Collapse"?
(a) Irakli Loladze.
(b) William Vollmann.
(c) Paul Ehrlich.
(d) E. O. Wilson.

3. The Chinese "airpocalypse" of 2013 led to a peak Air Quality Index of what?
(a) 993.
(b) 686.
(c) 846.
(d) 473.

4. What does the term "analogue" mean as used in Part I: Cascades?
(a) A thing that is uncertain.
(b) A think that is unlikely.
(c) A thing that can be computed numerically.
(d) A thing seen as comparable to another.

5. The author notes in "Systems" that soldiers returning home from war are estimated to suffer from PTSD at rates between what percentages?
(a) 45-70%.
(b) 11-31%.
(c) 25-50%.
(d) 5-10%.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of the planet's coal-power capacity does China command?

2. Approximately how many people were evacuated due to Hurricane Irma?

3. How much land does Louisiana lose to the sea every hour?

4. Who is the Swedish journalist that wrote The Re-Origin of Species?

5. When did Roger Revelle die?

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