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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. Who are the two "Climate Mao" leaders in the world today that are described by the author in "Politics of Consumption"?
(a) Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
(b) Paul Ehrlich and Donald Trump.
(c) Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
(d) Xi Pinping and Donald Trump.

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

3. According to the author in "Climate Conflict," "Over the last decade, researchers have even managed to quantify some of the nonobvious relationships between temperature and violence: for every half degree of warming, they say, societies will see" between what percent increase in the likelihood of armed conflict (152)?
(a) Between 5-8%.
(b) Between 10-20%.
(c) Between 20-30%.
(d) Between 30-40%.

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

5. Who is the "charismatic, closeted environmental declinist and self-hating Southerner whose descent into suicide, beset by planetary panic, was documented in the podcast 'S-Town'" (244)?
(a) John B. McLemore.
(b) David Buckel.
(c) Roy Scranton.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Great Depression dropped global GDP by about what percent?

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

3. When did labor historian Eric Hobsbawm write "Whoever says Industrial Revolution, says cotton" (140)?

4. Who wrote Guns, Germs, and Steel?

5. The author notes in "Systems" that what climate scientists refer to as "systems crises," he refers to as what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does climate change affect economy?

3. What is UNICEF?

4. When did the Black Death occur and what was its fallout?

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

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

7. What is Zika and what are its effects?

8. What is permafrost?

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

10. What does "anchoring" refer to in behavioral psychology?

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