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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how many people fell ill from cryptosporidium due to an outbreak following a storm in 1993?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 400,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 500,000.

2. 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.

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

4. Who won the 2016 Nobel Prize alongside Paul Romer?
(a) Paul Ehrlich.
(b) Jair Bolsonaro.
(c) William Nordhaus.
(d) Amitav Ghosh.

5. The author notes in "Systems" that soldiers returning home from war are estimated to suffer from PTSD at rates between what percentages?
(a) 45-70%.
(b) 11-31%.
(c) 5-10%.
(d) 25-50%.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What percent of the world's mammals (by weight) are currently wild?

3. In 2016, a boy was killed and 20 people were infected by anthrax that was released when retreating permafrost exposed the frozen carcass of what animal?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is permafrost?

2. What is Zika and what are its effects?

3. Describe the ideological contrast between China and Russia in terms of climate change.

4. Who was David Buckel and why is he discussed in the book?

5. What correlative statistics does the author provide regarding conflict and global warming in "Climate Conflict"?

6. What is malaria and how many people does it kill each year?

7. What is confirmation bias and how does it apply to global warming?

8. What is the ambiguity effect?

9. What is Lyme disease and how many are affected by it yearly?

10. What is UNICEF?

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