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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) Default effect.
(b) Confirmation bias.
(c) The ambiguity effect.
(d) Anthropocentric thinking.

2. When did James Hansen first testify before Congress about global warming?
(a) 1993.
(b) 2001.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1988.

3. What term used in "Storytelling" refers to action taken to prevent disease, especially be specified means or against a specified disease?
(a) Prophylaxis.
(b) Vector proliferation.
(c) Proctologist.
(d) Ellipses.

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

5. Who is the Swedish journalist that wrote The Re-Origin of Species?
(a) Torill Kornfeldt.
(b) David Buckel.
(c) Roy Scranton.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does the author use in "Crisis Capitalism" to describe the situation wherein "most people are so uncomfortable contemplating uncertainty, they will accept lesser outcomes in a bartain to avoid dealing with it" (188)?

2. In Minnessota during the 2000s, winter ticks helped drop the moose population by what percentage?

3. Who authored The Shock Doctrine?

4. When did Bill McKibben declare "The End of Nature" (181)?

5. Who are the two "Climate Mao" leaders in the world today that are described by the author in "Politics of Consumption"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does climate change affect economy?

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

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

6. What is permafrost?

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

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

9. What is the Belt and Road Initiative?

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

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