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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 notes in "Systems" that soldiers returning home from war are estimated to suffer from PTSD at rates between what percentages?
(a) 5-10%.
(b) 25-50%.
(c) 11-31%.
(d) 45-70%.

2. Approximately how many people fell ill from cryptosporidium due to an outbreak following a storm in 1993?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 400,000.
(d) 500,000.

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

4. Where did the U.S experience its most dramatic outbreak of waterborne disease in 1993?
(a) Milwaukee.
(b) Houston.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) New York.

5. According to a 2018 study by the Union of Concerned Scientists, how many American homes and businesses will suffer chronic flooding by 2100?
(a) 2.4 million.
(b) 1.7 million.
(c) 4.2 million.
(d) 1.3 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. What film does the author say "depicts civilization in semi-collapse, but collapsed by a fertility menace" (170)?

2. Approximately how many people die from malaria each year currently (as of 2018)?

3. 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)?

4. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to "the tendency to choose the present option over alternatives" (189)?

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 Lyme disease and how many are affected by it yearly?

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

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

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

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

6. What is the ambiguity effect?

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

8. How does climate change affect economy?

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

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

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