View a FREE sample

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. Globally, about what percentage of freshwater is used for food production and agriculture?
(a) 30-40%.
(b) 40-50%.
(c) 80-90%.
(d) 70-80%.

2. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to "our tendency to wait for others to act rather than acting ourselves" (188)?
(a) The ambiguity effect.
(b) The bystander effect.
(c) Default effect.
(d) Anthropocentric thinking.

3. The recent Great Recession (2008) lowered the global GDP by about wht percentage in a onetime shock?
(a) 2%.
(b) 12%.
(c) 9%.
(d) 16%.

4. What term from "Crisis Capitalism" describes "a preference for algorithmic and other kinds of nonhuman decition making, and also applies to our generations-long deference to market forces as something like an infallible, or at least unbeatable, overseer" (188)?
(a) Anthropocentric thinking.
(b) Default effect.
(c) Automation bias.
(d) The ambiguity effect.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the IPCC refer to?

2. When did the United Nations establish its Framework on Climate Change?

3. When was Norman Borlaug born?

4. Approximately how many people fell ill from cryptosporidium due to an outbreak following a storm in 1993?

5. What term did Wallace Smith Broecker help to popularize, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 207 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample