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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 wrote the book-length essay The Great Derangement?
(a) Jair Bolsonaro.
(b) Amitav Ghosh.
(c) William Nordhaus.
(d) H. G. Wells.

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

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

4. Who wrote Guns, Germs, and Steel?
(a) Roy Scranton.
(b) Jared Diamond.
(c) Paul Ehrlich.
(d) David Buckel.

5. Where did the U.S experience its most dramatic outbreak of waterborne disease in 1993?
(a) Houston.
(b) Milwaukee.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Against the Grain?

2. Who wrote The Great Divergence?

3. Approximately how many people fell ill from cryptosporidium due to an outbreak following a storm in 1993?

4. Who wrote Climate Wars?

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the examples of climate devastation presented on-screen discussed in "Storytelling"?

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

3. What is yellow fever and what are its effects?

4. What is the ambiguity effect?

5. Why is the narrative of climate change difficult to translate to film?

6. What is Zika and what are its effects?

7. What is permafrost?

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

9. How many people were affected by the 1918 flu? What statistics for the plague are cited in "Plagues of Warning"?

10. What is the Belt and Road Initiative?

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