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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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%.

2. 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) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

3. 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) 12%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 23%.
(d) 34%.

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

5. 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) "Your vote."
(d) "Driving a car."

6. Who wrote Against the Grain?
(a) David Buckel.
(b) Roy Scranton.
(c) James C. Scott.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

7. Who wrote The Great Divergence?
(a) Amitav Ghosh.
(b) William Nordhaus.
(c) Kenneth Pomeranz.
(d) Jair Bolsonaro.

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

9. What term from "Crisis Capitalism" describes "a preference for algorithmic and other kinds of nonhuman decition making, and also applies to our generations-long deference to market forces as something like an infallible, or at least unbeatable, overseer" (188)?
(a) Default effect.
(b) Automation bias.
(c) Anthropocentric thinking.
(d) The ambiguity effect.

10. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to an ill-assorted collection of parts assembled to fufill a particular purpose?
(a) The ambiguity effect.
(b) Confirmation bias.
(c) Kludge.
(d) Anthropocentric thinking.

11. When did Hurricane Mitch strike Central America?
(a) 2012.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2002.

12. 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) 800 million.
(c) 900 million.
(d) 500 million.

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

14. On what date does the author describe a 60-year-old man walking into Prospect Park in Brooklyn and lighting himself on fire in "Politics of Consumption"?
(a) March 3, 2017.
(b) April 14, 2018.
(c) April 2, 2016.
(d) May 23, 2018.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Swedish journalist that wrote The Re-Origin of Species?

2. Approximately how many people die from malaria each year currently (as of 2018)?

3. 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)?

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

5. How many protests by self-immolation have there been in the United States since 2014 (as of 2018)?

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