1. What word from "Storytelling" refers to the process of giving an animal or object human attributes?
(a) Metaphorphosize.
(b) Anthropomorphize.
(c) Agglomerate.
(d) Anthropocentrize.

2. Approximately how many people fell ill from cryptosporidium due to an outbreak following a storm in 1993?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 400,000.

3. According to the author in "Hunger," undernourishment in the world's developing countries has dropped from over 30% in 1970 to what percentage today?
(a) 10%.
(b) 24%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 15%.

4. For how many years does Wallace-Wells say his mother has smoked in her lifetime?
(a) 34 years.
(b) 67 years.
(c) 23 years.
(d) 58 years.

5. The author points out in "Politics of Consumption," "Eating organic is nice, in other words, but if your goal is to save the climate" what "is much more important" (224)?
(a) "Driving a car."
(b) "Your vote."
(c) "Using plastic."
(d) "Dissidence."

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. How much in damages did Hurricane Florence wreak on North Carolina in 2018?

3. What was the population of New Orleans in 1960?

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

5. Who is the Swedish journalist that wrote The Re-Origin of Species?

(see the answer key)

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