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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. The author states in "Climate Conflict" that climate change has already elevated Africa's risk of conflict by more than what percentage?
(a) 25%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 5.%.

2. Approximately how many people die from malaria each year currently (as of 2018)?
(a) 1.5 million.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 2 million.

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

4. The Black Death killed as much as what percent of the population of Europe, according to the author?
(a) 60%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 80%.

5. Who wrote Against the Grain?
(a) David Buckel.
(b) Paul Ehrlich.
(c) James C. Scott.
(d) Roy Scranton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary critic wrote "It is easier to imagine the end of the world that to imagine the end of capitalism" (190)?

2. 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)?

3. Who won the 2016 Nobel Prize alongside Paul Romer?

4. Where did Guy McPherson begin his career as a conservation biologist?

5. Who wrote Heart of Darkness?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the Belt and Road Initiative?

4. What is the ambiguity effect?

5. How does climate change affect economy?

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

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

8. What is UNICEF?

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

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

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