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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Hurricane Mitch strike Central America?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1998.

2. What percent of the world's mammals (by weight) are currently wild?
(a) 6%.
(b) 4%.
(c) 2%.
(d) 9%.

3. Where did Guy McPherson begin his career as a conservation biologist?
(a) New York University.
(b) The University of California.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The University of Arizona.

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 30-40%.
(c) Between 20-30%.
(d) Between 5-8%.

5. Who wrote Learning to Die in the Anthropocene and We're Doomed. Now What?
(a) Roy Scranton.
(b) David Buckel.
(c) Irakli Loladze.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

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

7. 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)?
(a) Confirmation bias.
(b) Anthropocentric thinking.
(c) Default effect.
(d) The ambiguity effect.

8. Who wrote the book-length essay The Great Derangement?
(a) Jair Bolsonaro.
(b) Amitav Ghosh.
(c) William Nordhaus.
(d) H. G. Wells.

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

10. Who is the Swedish journalist that wrote The Re-Origin of Species?
(a) Roy Scranton.
(b) Paul Ehrlich.
(c) David Buckel.
(d) Torill Kornfeldt.

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

12. What word from "Storytelling" means to collect or form into a mass or group?
(a) Coagulate.
(b) Anthropomorphize.
(c) Anthropocene.
(d) Agglomerate.

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

14. For how many years approximately has farming existed in human culture?
(a) 8,000 years.
(b) 3,000 years.
(c) 12,000 years.
(d) 2,000 years.

15. Who authored The Shock Doctrine?
(a) William Nordhaus.
(b) Naomi Klein.
(c) Amitav Ghosh.
(d) Jair Bolsonaro.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percent of the world's landmass was altered by humans between 1992 and 2015?

2. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to an ill-assorted collection of parts assembled to fufill a particular purpose?

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

4. According to a 2016 study, from 1980-210 what percentage of conflict in the world's ethnically diverse countries began in months stamped by weather disaster/

5. Who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore?

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