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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 was the man who lit himself on fire in Prospect Park that is described in "Politics of Consumption"?
(a) Paul Ehrlich.
(b) David Buckel.
(c) Roy Scranton.
(d) Irakli Loladze.

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

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

4. For how many years approximately has farming existed in human culture?
(a) 3,000 years.
(b) 12,000 years.
(c) 8,000 years.
(d) 2,000 years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What ecologist "arguest that, in fact, in the real-time vacuum of the sixth mass exctintion, 'nature is thriving' - inventing new species, carving new ecological niches" (244)?

2. Where did the U.S experience its most dramatic outbreak of waterborne disease in 1993?

3. The recent Great Recession (2008) lowered the global GDP by about wht percentage in a onetime shock?

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

5. Yellow fever is estimated to kill approximately what percentage of those infected?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Belt and Road Initiative?

2. What is UNICEF?

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

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

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

6. How does climate change affect economy?

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

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

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

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

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