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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who authored The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers?
(a) Paul Michael Kennedy.
(b) Roy Scranton.
(c) David Buckel.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

2. What is the name of Robert Kennedy's memoir of the Cuban missile crisis?
(a) Bay of Pigs.
(b) Children of Men.
(c) 1969.
(d) Thirteen Days.

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

4. How many protests by self-immolation have there been in the United States since 2014 (as of 2018)?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

5. Who won the 2016 Nobel Prize alongside Paul Romer?
(a) Amitav Ghosh.
(b) William Nordhaus.
(c) Jair Bolsonaro.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

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

7. 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 30-40%.
(b) Between 10-20%.
(c) Between 20-30%.
(d) Between 5-8%.

8. Approximately how many people were evacuated due to Hurricane Irma?
(a) 2 million.
(b) 5 million.
(c) 7 million.
(d) 1 million.

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

10. Where did the U.S experience its most dramatic outbreak of waterborne disease in 1993?
(a) Milwaukee.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) New York.
(d) Houston.

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

12. Who wrote Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future?
(a) David Buckel and James Anderson.
(b) Roy Scranton.
(c) Paul Ehrlich.
(d) Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright.

13. 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) 40 million.
(c) 70 million.
(d) 50 million.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Learning to Die in the Anthropocene and We're Doomed. Now What?

2. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to people seeking "evidence for what we already understand to be true, such as the promise that human life will endure, rather than the cognitive pain of reconceptualizing our world" (188)?

3. Who wrote Guns, Germs, and Steel?

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

5. 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)?

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