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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was Norman Borlaug born?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1967.

3. What word from Part I: Cascades refers to the explanation of phenomenon by the purpose they serve rather than by postulated causes?
(a) Endography.
(b) Phylology.
(c) Teleology.
(d) Vectorology.

4. 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?
(a) 4.5.
(b) 4.8.
(c) 5.2.
(d) 2.3

5. Who has served as the President of the People's Republic of China since 2013?
(a) Li Yuanhong.
(b) Xi Jinping.
(c) Yuan Shikai.
(d) Sun Yatsen.

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

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

8. How many people were killed in the Chicago heat wave of 1995?
(a) 2,342.
(b) 234.
(c) 345.
(d) 739.

9. How many mass extinctions has the earth experienced prior to the one we are living through now, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

10. What was the population of New Orleans in 1960?
(a) 700,000.
(b) 400,000.
(c) 600,000.
(d) 2 million.

11. In 1850, the area of Glacier National Park had 150 glaciers. How many are left today?
(a) 18.
(b) 36.
(c) 12.
(d) 26.

12. What is the population of Delhi (as of 2018)?
(a) 26 million.
(b) 14 million.
(c) 45 million.
(d) 13 million.

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

14. How many workers have been seriously injured in the U.S. by heat alone since 1992?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 70,000.

15. When was David Wallace-Wells's father born?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1938.

Short Answer Questions

1. What small town in Maryland was drowned by a "thousand-year flood" in 2016 (22)?

2. How many gallons of gasoline were released into Galveston Bay as a result of Hurricane Harvey?

3. What are described by the author as two structures in California that are two quintessential symbols of the imperiousness of American money in "Wildfire"?

4. According to the author in "Hunger," undernourishment in the world's developing countries has dropped from over 30% in 1970 to what percentage today?

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?

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