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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the author of The Progress of This Storm?
(a) Roy Scranton.
(b) Paul Ehrlich.
(c) Andreas Malm.
(d) David Buckel.

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

4. Who was known as the Unibomber?
(a) Paul Ehrlich.
(b) Theodore Kaczynski.
(c) Roy Scranton.
(d) David Buckel.

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

6. 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) Anthropocentric thinking.
(c) Automation bias.
(d) The ambiguity effect.

7. 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) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

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

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

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

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

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

13. Approximately how many people were evacuated due to Hurricane Irma?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 2 million.
(c) 7 million.
(d) 5 million.

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

15. 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) Children of Men.
(b) Minecraft.
(c) Spore.
(d) Fortnite.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

3. When did Hurricane Andrew hit Florida?

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

5. Where did the U.S experience its most dramatic outbreak of waterborne disease in 1993?

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