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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 shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore?
(a) Camille Parmesan.
(b) Irakli Loladze.
(c) William Vollmann.
(d) Jair Bolsonaro.

2. In 2018, the World Bank estimated that the current path of carbon emissions would sharply diminish the living condition of how many people living throughout South Asia?
(a) 900 million.
(b) 700 million.
(c) 800 million.
(d) 500 million.

3. What does Guy McPherson's acronym "NTHE" stand for?
(a) Near-term humanity efforts.
(b) Near-term holistic exertion.
(c) Near-term human extinction.
(d) New-time human expansion.

4. The author notes in "Systems" that what climate scientists refer to as "systems crises," he refers to as what?
(a) Cascades.
(b) Degradation.
(c) Epochs.
(d) Turnstiles.

5. When did Hurricane Andrew hit Florida?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2012.
(d) 2002.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in "Climate Conflict," "Over the last decade, researchers have even managed to quantify some of the nonobvious relationships between temperature and violence: for every half degree of warming, they say, societies will see" between what percent increase in the likelihood of armed conflict (152)?

2. The author states in "Climate Conflict" that climate change has already elevated Africa's risk of conflict by more than what percentage?

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

4. What percent of the world's mammals (by weight) are currently wild?

5. 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)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is permafrost?

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

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

6. How does climate change affect economy?

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

8. What is the ambiguity effect?

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

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

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