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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. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to "the tendency to choose the present option over alternatives" (189)?
(a) The ambiguity effect.
(b) Confirmation bias.
(c) Default effect.
(d) Anthropocentric thinking.

2. 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)?
(a) Minecraft.
(b) Spore.
(c) Children of Men.
(d) Fortnite.

3. Who wrote the book-length essay The Great Derangement?
(a) H. G. Wells.
(b) Amitav Ghosh.
(c) William Nordhaus.
(d) Jair Bolsonaro.

4. What is the name of Robert Kennedy's memoir of the Cuban missile crisis?
(a) Bay of Pigs.
(b) Thirteen Days.
(c) 1969.
(d) Children of Men.

5. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to an ill-assorted collection of parts assembled to fufill a particular purpose?
(a) Anthropocentric thinking.
(b) Kludge.
(c) Confirmation bias.
(d) The ambiguity effect.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author notes in "Systems" that what climate scientists refer to as "systems crises," he refers to as what?

2. In 2018, scientists revived a worm that had been frozen in permafrost for approximately how many years?

3. The recent Great Recession (2008) lowered the global GDP by about wht percentage in a onetime shock?

4. Who wrote Heart of Darkness?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does climate change affect economy?

3. What is Lyme disease and how many are affected by it yearly?

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

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

6. What is Zika and what are its effects?

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

8. What is the ambiguity effect?

9. What correlative statistics does the author provide regarding conflict and global warming in "Climate Conflict"?

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

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