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

2. What month has traditionally marked the beginning of the rainy season in California?
(a) December.
(b) November.
(c) February.
(d) January.

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 wolf.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A tiger.
(d) A reindeer.

4. What word from "Storytelling" means to collect or form into a mass or group?
(a) Coagulate.
(b) Agglomerate.
(c) Anthropomorphize.
(d) Anthropocene.

5. What term does the author use in "Crisis Capitalism" to describe the situation wherein "most people are so uncomfortable contemplating uncertainty, they will accept lesser outcomes in a bartain to avoid dealing with it" (188)?
(a) Confirmation bias.
(b) Default effect.
(c) Anthropocentric thinking.
(d) The ambiguity effect.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to an ill-assorted collection of parts assembled to fufill a particular purpose?

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

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

4. Who is cited in Part I: Cascades as the theorist who called climate change a "hyperobject" (17)?

5. The author points out in "Economic Collapse" that "Every round-trip plane ticket from New York to London, keep in mind, costs the Arctic" how many more square meters of ice (147)?

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