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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states in "Climate Conflict" that climate change has already elevated Africa's risk of conflict by more than what percentage?
(a) 20%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 5.%.
(d) 10%.

2. 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 ambiguity effect.
(c) Default effect.
(d) The bystander effect.

3. Yellow fever is estimated to kill approximately what percentage of those infected?
(a) 8-10%.
(b) 2-4%.
(c) 3-8%.
(d) 10-12%.

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

5. Where did the U.S experience its most dramatic outbreak of waterborne disease in 1993?
(a) Milwaukee.
(b) New York.
(c) Houston.
(d) New Orleans.

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

7. 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)?
(a) Spore.
(b) Minecraft.
(c) Children of Men.
(d) Fortnite.

8. In 2018, scientists revived a worm that had been frozen in permafrost for approximately how many years?
(a) 34,000.
(b) 24,000.
(c) 42,000.
(d) 64,000.

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

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

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

12. Who wrote the poem "Darkness" following a volcanic eruption in the East Indies?
(a) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) William Wordsworth.
(d) Walt Whitman.

13. How many protests by self-immolation have there been in the United States since 2014 (as of 2018)?
(a) 3.
(b) 9.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

14. The Black Death killed as much as what percent of the population of Europe, according to the author?
(a) 30%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 40%.

15. What percent of the world's landmass was altered by humans between 1992 and 2015?
(a) 34%.
(b) 22%.
(c) 12%.
(d) 19%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term used in "Storytelling" refers to action taken to prevent disease, especially be specified means or against a specified disease?

2. What term does the author use in "Crisis Capitalism" to describe the situation wherein "most people are so uncomfortable contemplating uncertainty, they will accept lesser outcomes in a bartain to avoid dealing with it" (188)?

3. Who was known as the Unibomber?

4. Approximately how many people were killed by the 1918 flu?

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

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