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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many people were killed as a result of Hurricane Mitch in Central America?

3. Who wrote Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future?

4. Who wrote The Great Divergence?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is UNICEF?

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

8. What is permafrost?

9. What is the ambiguity effect?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the threat of prehistoric plagues as a result of global warming. Where are these prehistoric plagues hidden? How have they been discovered? What threats do they present in the next century?

Essay Topic 2

What is the Paris Agreement? What countries have signed on with the Paris Agreement? What is the goal of the agreement? How have the countries involved changed to account for their signing to the agreement?

Essay Topic 3

What is global warming? What causes it? What effects does it have on the environment around us? How can we slow global warming?

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