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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people were killed as a result of Hurricane Mitch in Central America?
(a) 8,000.
(b) 11,000.
(c) 23,000.
(d) 5,000.

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

3. Approximately how many people were killed by the 1918 flu?
(a) 62 million.
(b) 25 million.
(c) 37 million.
(d) 50 million.

4. Who authored The Shock Doctrine?
(a) Naomi Klein.
(b) Amitav Ghosh.
(c) Jair Bolsonaro.
(d) William Nordhaus.

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) 19.
(d) 26.

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

7. 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) 20 million.
(d) 40 million.

8. Who is the "charismatic, closeted environmental declinist and self-hating Southerner whose descent into suicide, beset by planetary panic, was documented in the podcast 'S-Town'" (244)?
(a) David Buckel.
(b) Roy Scranton.
(c) Paul Ehrlich.
(d) John B. McLemore.

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

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

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

12. When was a 32,000-year-old "extremophile" bacteria revived?
(a) 2016.
(b) 2005.
(c) 2013.
(d) 2007.

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

14. What film does the author say "depicts civilization in semi-collapse, but collapsed by a fertility menace" (170)?
(a) Mad Max: Fury Road.
(b) The Road.
(c) Children of Men.
(d) I Am Legend.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote the poem "Darkness" following a volcanic eruption in the East Indies?

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

4. What percent of the world's mammals (by weight) are currently wild?

5. 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)?

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