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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What literary critic wrote "It is easier to imagine the end of the world that to imagine the end of capitalism" (190)?
(a) Amitav Ghosh.
(b) William Nordhaus.
(c) Fredric Jameson.
(d) Jair Bolsonaro.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Guns, Germs, and Steel?

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)?

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

4. Who authored The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers?

5. Who is the author of The Progress of This Storm?

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