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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did labor historian Eric Hobsbawm write "Whoever says Industrial Revolution, says cotton" (140)?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1975.

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

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

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

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

6. In Minnessota during the 2000s, winter ticks helped drop the moose population by what percentage?
(a) 34%.
(b) 23%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 58%.

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

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

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

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

11. According to the author in "Climate Conflict," "Over the last decade, researchers have even managed to quantify some of the nonobvious relationships between temperature and violence: for every half degree of warming, they say, societies will see" between what percent increase in the likelihood of armed conflict (152)?
(a) Between 10-20%.
(b) Between 5-8%.
(c) Between 30-40%.
(d) Between 20-30%.

12. 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) 20 million.
(b) 50 million.
(c) 40 million.
(d) 70 million.

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

14. What word from "Storytelling" means to collect or form into a mass or group?
(a) Anthropomorphize.
(b) Agglomerate.
(c) Anthropocene.
(d) Coagulate.

15. 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) "Dissidence."
(b) "Using plastic."
(c) "Driving a car."
(d) "Your vote."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Great Depression dropped global GDP by about what percent?

3. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to "our tendency to wait for others to act rather than acting ourselves" (188)?

4. The author states in "Climate Conflict" that climate change has already elevated Africa's risk of conflict by more than what percentage?

5. What is the name of Robert Kennedy's memoir of the Cuban missile crisis?

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