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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 much of the population in the sugarcane region of El Salvador has chronic kidney disease?
(a) 1/5.
(b) 1/7.
(c) 1/10.
(d) 1/3.

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

3. 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) The ambiguity effect.
(c) Default effect.
(d) Automation bias.

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

5. How many premature deaths were from small-particulate pollution in 2017 according to a report from The Lancet?
(a) 12 million.
(b) 9 million.
(c) 8 million.
(d) 7 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many people were killed by the 1918 flu?

2. Who was the man who lit himself on fire in Prospect Park that is described in "Politics of Consumption"?

3. In 2017, Solomon Hsiang and Trevor Houser calculated that Hurricane Maria could take how long for the economy of the island to return to even the level it enjoyed just before the storm?

4. In what country are the twin towns of San Ignacio and Santa Elena located?

5. What does Guy McPherson's acronym "NTHE" stand for?

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