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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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)?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

4. Approximately how many people die from malaria each year currently (as of 2018)?
(a) 1.5 million.
(b) 1 million.
(c) 2 million.
(d) 500,000.

5. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to an ill-assorted collection of parts assembled to fufill a particular purpose?
(a) The ambiguity effect.
(b) Kludge.
(c) Anthropocentric thinking.
(d) Confirmation bias.

6. What term used in "Storytelling" refers to action taken to prevent disease, especially be specified means or against a specified disease?
(a) Ellipses.
(b) Vector proliferation.
(c) Proctologist.
(d) Prophylaxis.

7. Who wrote Guns, Germs, and Steel?
(a) Paul Ehrlich.
(b) Roy Scranton.
(c) David Buckel.
(d) Jared Diamond.

8. Who was the man who lit himself on fire in Prospect Park that is described in "Politics of Consumption"?
(a) Irakli Loladze.
(b) Roy Scranton.
(c) David Buckel.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

9. According to the author, almost how many people are displace and wandering the planet right now as a result of political and social instability (154)?
(a) 40 million.
(b) 20 million.
(c) 70 million.
(d) 50 million.

10. The Black Death killed as much as what percent of the population of Europe, according to the author?
(a) 30%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 80%.

11. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, what percent of evacuees exceeded the diagnosit threshold for acute stress disorder?
(a) 74%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 62%.
(d) 35%.

12. What term from "Crisis Capitalism" refers to the situation wherein people build their "view of the universe outward from our own experience" (188)?
(a) The ambiguity effect.
(b) Default effect.
(c) Agglomerate thinking.
(d) Anthropocentric thinking.

13. Who wrote the 1935 poem "Reamament" that is quoted in the book?
(a) Roy Scranton.
(b) Robinson Jeffers.
(c) Paul Ehrlich.
(d) David Buckel.

14. 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) An allusion.
(b) A protagonist.
(c) A true antagonist.
(d) A metaphor.

15. When did Bill McKibben declare "The End of Nature" (181)?
(a) 2013.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1994.
(d) 2002.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Who was known as the Unibomber?

4. What literary critic wrote "It is easier to imagine the end of the world that to imagine the end of capitalism" (190)?

5. The Great Depression dropped global GDP by about what percent?

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