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

2. The Great Depression dropped global GDP by about what percent?
(a) 18%.
(b) 32%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 15%.

3. How long can a person with kidney failure expect to live with dialysis?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 5 years.

4. Approximately how many Muslims participate in the hajj each year?
(a) 2 million.
(b) 3 million.
(c) 5 million.
(d) 1 million.

5. How much of the planet's coal-power capacity does China command?
(a) 1/3.
(b) 1/5.
(c) 1/4.
(d) 1/2.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the U.S experience its most dramatic outbreak of waterborne disease in 1993?

2. Approximately how many people die from malaria each year currently (as of 2018)?

3. Who won the 2016 Nobel Prize alongside Paul Romer?

4. Yellow fever is estimated to kill approximately what percentage of those infected?

5. 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?

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