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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) Xi Pinping and Donald Trump.
(b) Paul Ehrlich and Donald Trump.
(c) Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
(d) Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

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

3. Who wrote Learning to Die in the Anthropocene and We're Doomed. Now What?
(a) David Buckel.
(b) Roy Scranton.
(c) Irakli Loladze.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

4. What word from "Storytelling" means to collect or form into a mass or group?
(a) Anthropocene.
(b) Agglomerate.
(c) Coagulate.
(d) Anthropomorphize.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

3. What term used in "Storytelling" refers to action taken to prevent disease, especially be specified means or against a specified disease?

4. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to people seeking "evidence for what we already understand to be true, such as the promise that human life will endure, rather than the cognitive pain of reconceptualizing our world" (188)?

5. When was a 32,000-year-old "extremophile" bacteria revived?

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 does "anchoring" refer to in behavioral psychology?

4. What is Zika and what are its effects?

5. What is UNICEF?

6. What is the ambiguity effect?

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

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

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

10. What is the Belt and Road Initiative?

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