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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to a 2016 study, from 1980-210 what percentage of conflict in the world's ethnically diverse countries began in months stamped by weather disaster/
(a) 23%.
(b) 34%.
(c) 45%.
(d) 12%.

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

3. 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) 45-70%.
(c) 11-31%.
(d) 5-10%.

4. 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) 700 million.
(b) 500 million.
(c) 900 million.
(d) 800 million.

5. When did Bill McKibben declare "The End of Nature" (181)?
(a) 2002.
(b) 1989.
(c) 2013.
(d) 1994.

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

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

8. 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)?
(a) The ambiguity effect.
(b) Default effect.
(c) Anthropocentric thinking.
(d) Confirmation bias.

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

10. For how many years approximately has farming existed in human culture?
(a) 2,000 years.
(b) 8,000 years.
(c) 12,000 years.
(d) 3,000 years.

11. 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) Chris D. Thomas.
(b) Roy Scranton.
(c) David Buckel.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

12. 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 bystander effect.
(d) The ambiguity effect.

13. 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) Paul Ehrlich.
(c) John B. McLemore.
(d) Roy Scranton.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did James Hansen first testify before Congress about global warming?

2. Who wrote Heart of Darkness?

3. When did Hurricane Mitch strike Central America?

4. Who was the man who lit himself on fire in Prospect Park that is described in "Politics of Consumption"?

5. Who wrote Against the Grain?

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