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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

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

3. Where did Guy McPherson begin his career as a conservation biologist?
(a) New York University.
(b) The University of Arizona.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The University of California.

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

5. 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) 54.
(b) 36.
(c) 26.
(d) 19.

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

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

8. In what country are the twin towns of San Ignacio and Santa Elena located?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Belize.
(c) Austria.
(d) Guatemala.

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

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

11. 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) 70 million.
(b) 40 million.
(c) 20 million.
(d) 50 million.

12. Who wrote the book-length essay The Great Derangement?
(a) Amitav Ghosh.
(b) H. G. Wells.
(c) William Nordhaus.
(d) Jair Bolsonaro.

13. The author states in "Climate Conflict" that climate change has already elevated Africa's risk of conflict by more than what percentage?
(a) 25%.
(b) 5.%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 20%.

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

15. Approximately how many people fell ill from cryptosporidium due to an outbreak following a storm in 1993?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 400,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Bill McKibben declare "The End of Nature" (181)?

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

3. Who wrote Against the Grain?

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

5. 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)?

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