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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 Climate Wars?
(a) Harald Welzer.
(b) Roy Scranton.
(c) David Buckel.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

2. The author points out in "Politics of Consumption," "Eating organic is nice, in other words, but if your goal is to save the climate" what "is much more important" (224)?
(a) "Driving a car."
(b) "Your vote."
(c) "Dissidence."
(d) "Using plastic."

3. The author points out in "Economic Collapse" that "Every round-trip plane ticket from New York to London, keep in mind, costs the Arctic" how many more square meters of ice (147)?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

4. 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)?
(a) Paul Ehrlich.
(b) Roy Scranton.
(c) David Buckel.
(d) John B. McLemore.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term from "Crisis Capitalism" describes "a preference for algorithmic and other kinds of nonhuman decition making, and also applies to our generations-long deference to market forces as something like an infallible, or at least unbeatable, overseer" (188)?

2. The Black Death killed as much as what percent of the population of Europe, according to the author?

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

4. The author notes in "Systems" that soldiers returning home from war are estimated to suffer from PTSD at rates between what percentages?

5. 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)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Zika and what are its effects?

4. What is confirmation bias and how does it apply to global warming?

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

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

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

8. How does climate change affect economy?

9. What is the ambiguity effect?

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

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