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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Hurricane Andrew hit Florida?
(a) 1992.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2012.
(d) 1999.

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

3. What film does the author say "depicts civilization in semi-collapse, but collapsed by a fertility menace" (170)?
(a) The Road.
(b) I Am Legend.
(c) Mad Max: Fury Road.
(d) Children of Men.

4. 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) April 14, 2018.
(b) May 23, 2018.
(c) March 3, 2017.
(d) April 2, 2016.

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

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

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

8. In 2017, Solomon Hsiang and Trevor Houser calculated that Hurricane Maria could take how long for the economy of the island to return to even the level it enjoyed just before the storm?
(a) 26.
(b) 19.
(c) 54.
(d) 36.

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

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

11. The recent Great Recession (2008) lowered the global GDP by about wht percentage in a onetime shock?
(a) 12%.
(b) 9%.
(c) 16%.
(d) 2%.

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

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

14. Who wrote the 1935 poem "Reamament" that is quoted in the book?
(a) Robinson Jeffers.
(b) Roy Scranton.
(c) David Buckel.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many people were evacuated due to Hurricane Irma?

2. How many people were killed as a result of Hurricane Mitch in Central America?

3. What percent of the world's landmass was altered by humans between 1992 and 2015?

4. 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?

5. What does Guy McPherson's acronym "NTHE" stand for?

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