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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. Today (as of 2018), the U.S. climate hovers around what temperature?
(a) 12.6 degrees Celcius.
(b) 14.2 degrees Celcius.
(c) 13.4 degrees Celcius.
(d) 13.9 degrees Celcius.

2. The recent Great Recession (2008) lowered the global GDP by about wht percentage in a onetime shock?
(a) 9%.
(b) 12%.
(c) 2%.
(d) 16%.

3. Who wrote the poem "Darkness" following a volcanic eruption in the East Indies?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(c) William Wordsworth.
(d) Walt Whitman.

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

5. In 2017, Solomon Hsiang and Trevor Houser calculated that Hurricane Maria could take how long for the economy of the island to return to even the level it enjoyed just before the storm?
(a) 26.
(b) 54.
(c) 19.
(d) 36.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was known as the Unibomber?

2. Who wrote the 1935 poem "Reamament" that is quoted in the book?

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

4. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to "our tendency to wait for others to act rather than acting ourselves" (188)?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the Belt and Road Initiative?

5. What is UNICEF?

6. How does climate change affect economy?

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

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

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

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

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