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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 50 million.
(b) 70 million.
(c) 40 million.
(d) 20 million.

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

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

4. Who wrote Against the Grain?
(a) James C. Scott.
(b) Paul Ehrlich.
(c) David Buckel.
(d) Roy Scranton.

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

6. What ecologist "arguest that, in fact, in the real-time vacuum of the sixth mass exctintion, 'nature is thriving' - inventing new species, carving new ecological niches" (244)?
(a) Roy Scranton.
(b) David Buckel.
(c) Chris D. Thomas.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

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

8. 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) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

9. 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) Spore.
(b) Children of Men.
(c) Minecraft.
(d) Fortnite.

10. 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) Default effect.
(b) Anthropocentric thinking.
(c) Confirmation bias.
(d) The ambiguity effect.

11. Who is the author of The Time Machine?
(a) William Nordhaus.
(b) Amitav Ghosh.
(c) Jair Bolsonaro.
(d) H. G. Wells.

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

13. What does Guy McPherson's acronym "NTHE" stand for?
(a) New-time human expansion.
(b) Near-term humanity efforts.
(c) Near-term human extinction.
(d) Near-term holistic exertion.

14. On what date does the author describe a 60-year-old man walking into Prospect Park in Brooklyn and lighting himself on fire in "Politics of Consumption"?
(a) March 3, 2017.
(b) April 2, 2016.
(c) May 23, 2018.
(d) April 14, 2018.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to "the tendency to choose the present option over alternatives" (189)?

2. 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?

3. What country has the fifth-highest homicate rage in the world today (as of 2018)?

4. 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)?

5. Approximately how many people die from malaria each year currently (as of 2018)?

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