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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote in her book Motherhood, "The egoism of child-bearing is like the egoism of colonizing a country" (164)?
(a) Sheila Heti.
(b) Paul Ehrlich.
(c) Jair Bolsonaro.
(d) E. O. Wilson.

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

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

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

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

8. Who are the two "Climate Mao" leaders in the world today that are described by the author in "Politics of Consumption"?
(a) Xi Pinping and Donald Trump.
(b) Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
(c) Paul Ehrlich and Donald Trump.
(d) Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

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

10. Today (as of 2018), the U.S. climate hovers around what temperature?
(a) 13.9 degrees Celcius.
(b) 13.4 degrees Celcius.
(c) 12.6 degrees Celcius.
(d) 14.2 degrees Celcius.

11. 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) "Dissidence."
(c) "Driving a car."
(d) "Your vote."

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

13. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to "our tendency to wait for others to act rather than acting ourselves" (188)?
(a) Default effect.
(b) Anthropocentric thinking.
(c) The ambiguity effect.
(d) The bystander effect.

14. In 2018, the World Bank estimated that the current path of carbon emissions would sharply diminish the living condition of how many people living throughout South Asia?
(a) 800 million.
(b) 500 million.
(c) 700 million.
(d) 900 million.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many people were killed by the 1918 flu?

2. Who wrote The Great Divergence?

3. The author notes in "Systems" that what climate scientists refer to as "systems crises," he refers to as what?

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)?

5. Who won the 2016 Nobel Prize alongside Paul Romer?

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