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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Climate Wars?
(a) Roy Scranton.
(b) Harald Welzer.
(c) David Buckel.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

2. The author points out in "Politics of Consumption," "Eating organic is nice, in other words, but if your goal is to save the climate" what "is much more important" (224)?
(a) "Using plastic."
(b) "Your vote."
(c) "Dissidence."
(d) "Driving a car."

3. Yellow fever is estimated to kill approximately what percentage of those infected?
(a) 10-12%.
(b) 8-10%.
(c) 2-4%.
(d) 3-8%.

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

5. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to "the tendency to choose the present option over alternatives" (189)?
(a) The ambiguity effect.
(b) Default effect.
(c) Confirmation bias.
(d) Anthropocentric thinking.

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

7. 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.

8. The author notes in "Systems" that soldiers returning home from war are estimated to suffer from PTSD at rates between what percentages?
(a) 25-50%.
(b) 11-31%.
(c) 5-10%.
(d) 45-70%.

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

10. 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) Paul Ehrlich.
(c) David Buckel.
(d) Chris D. Thomas.

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

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

13. When did Hurricane Andrew hit Florida?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2002.
(d) 1992.

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

15. What literary critic wrote "It is easier to imagine the end of the world that to imagine the end of capitalism" (190)?
(a) Fredric Jameson.
(b) Amitav Ghosh.
(c) William Nordhaus.
(d) Jair Bolsonaro.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the approximate temperture of the greater San Francisco Bay Area currently (as of 2018)?

3. When did Hurricane Mitch strike Central America?

4. In what country are the twin towns of San Ignacio and Santa Elena located?

5. In Minnessota during the 2000s, winter ticks helped drop the moose population by what percentage?

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