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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country has the fifth-highest homicate rage in the world today (as of 2018)?
(a) Guatemala.
(b) The United States.
(c) France.
(d) Saudi Arabia.

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

3. The Great Depression dropped global GDP by about what percent?
(a) 25%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 18%.
(d) 32%.

4. Who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore?
(a) Jair Bolsonaro.
(b) William Vollmann.
(c) Irakli Loladze.
(d) Camille Parmesan.

5. The recent Great Recession (2008) lowered the global GDP by about wht percentage in a onetime shock?
(a) 9%.
(b) 12%.
(c) 2%.
(d) 16%.

6. 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) 20 million.
(b) 70 million.
(c) 50 million.
(d) 40 million.

7. Approximately how many people were killed by the 1918 flu?
(a) 62 million.
(b) 50 million.
(c) 25 million.
(d) 37 million.

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

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

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

11. What is the approximate temperture of the greater San Francisco Bay Area currently (as of 2018)?
(a) 15 degrees Celcius.
(b) 12 degrees Celcius.
(c) 11 degrees Celcius.
(d) 13 degrees Celcius.

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

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

14. 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) 36.
(b) 54.
(c) 26.
(d) 19.

15. Who is the author of The Progress of This Storm?
(a) Roy Scranton.
(b) David Buckel.
(c) Andreas Malm.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many people were evacuated due to Hurricane Irma?

2. Who wrote Against the Grain?

3. Who wrote Heart of Darkness?

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

5. Who wrote Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future?

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