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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. Today (as of 2018), the U.S. climate hovers around what temperature?
(a) 14.2 degrees Celcius.
(b) 13.4 degrees Celcius.
(c) 13.9 degrees Celcius.
(d) 12.6 degrees Celcius.

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

3. What term used in "Storytelling" refers to action taken to prevent disease, especially be specified means or against a specified disease?
(a) Proctologist.
(b) Vector proliferation.
(c) Prophylaxis.
(d) Ellipses.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to "the tendency to choose the present option over alternatives" (189)?

2. Who authored The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers?

3. 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)?

4. What word from "Storytelling" means to collect or form into a mass or group?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the Belt and Road Initiative?

4. What is the ambiguity effect?

5. What is permafrost?

6. What is described as "that basic promise extended by neoliberalism" in "Politics of Consumption" (225)?

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

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

9. How is plastic panic an example of climate parable?

10. What is Zika and what are its effects?

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