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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 2018, scientists revived a worm that had been frozen in permafrost for approximately how many years?
(a) 34,000.
(b) 42,000.
(c) 64,000.
(d) 24,000.

2. Who was known as the Unibomber?
(a) Theodore Kaczynski.
(b) David Buckel.
(c) Paul Ehrlich.
(d) Roy Scranton.

3. The author asserts in "Storytelling" that "in Moby-Dick or The Old Man and the Sea or many lesser examples, nature was typically" what (175)?
(a) A protagonist.
(b) An allusion.
(c) A metaphor.
(d) A true antagonist.

4. According to the author in "Climate Conflict," "Over the last decade, researchers have even managed to quantify some of the nonobvious relationships between temperature and violence: for every half degree of warming, they say, societies will see" between what percent increase in the likelihood of armed conflict (152)?
(a) Between 10-20%.
(b) Between 20-30%.
(c) Between 30-40%.
(d) Between 5-8%.

5. In Minnessota during the 2000s, winter ticks helped drop the moose population by what percentage?
(a) 23%.
(b) 34%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 58%.

6. In what country are the twin towns of San Ignacio and Santa Elena located?
(a) Austria.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Guatemala.
(d) Belize.

7. When did labor historian Eric Hobsbawm write "Whoever says Industrial Revolution, says cotton" (140)?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1979.

8. Who is the "charismatic, closeted environmental declinist and self-hating Southerner whose descent into suicide, beset by planetary panic, was documented in the podcast 'S-Town'" (244)?
(a) David Buckel.
(b) Paul Ehrlich.
(c) John B. McLemore.
(d) Roy Scranton.

9. Who are the two "Climate Mao" leaders in the world today that are described by the author in "Politics of Consumption"?
(a) Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
(b) Xi Pinping and Donald Trump.
(c) Paul Ehrlich and Donald Trump.
(d) Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

10. In 2018, the World Bank estimated that the current path of carbon emissions would sharply diminish the living condition of how many people living throughout South Asia?
(a) 800 million.
(b) 700 million.
(c) 900 million.
(d) 500 million.

11. Today (as of 2018), the U.S. climate hovers around what temperature?
(a) 12.6 degrees Celcius.
(b) 13.9 degrees Celcius.
(c) 13.4 degrees Celcius.
(d) 14.2 degrees Celcius.

12. What is referred as the world's most popular video game that "invites players into a competition for scarce resources during an extreme weather event" (175)?
(a) Children of Men.
(b) Spore.
(c) Minecraft.
(d) Fortnite.

13. Who wrote Heart of Darkness?
(a) David Buckel.
(b) Roy Scranton.
(c) Paul Ehrlich.
(d) Joseph Conrad.

14. The author notes in "Systems" that what climate scientists refer to as "systems crises," he refers to as what?
(a) Degradation.
(b) Cascades.
(c) Epochs.
(d) Turnstiles.

15. 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?
(a) 19.
(b) 36.
(c) 54.
(d) 26.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the U.S experience its most dramatic outbreak of waterborne disease in 1993?

2. The recent Great Recession (2008) lowered the global GDP by about wht percentage in a onetime shock?

3. When was a 32,000-year-old "extremophile" bacteria revived?

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

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)?

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