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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. In 2016, a boy was killed and 20 people were infected by anthrax that was released when retreating permafrost exposed the frozen carcass of what animal?

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

3. 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)?

4. Who is the "charismatic, closeted environmental declinist and self-hating Southerner whose descent into suicide, beset by planetary panic, was documented in the podcast 'S-Town'" (244)?

5. What country has the fifth-highest homicate rage in the world today (as of 2018)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is UNICEF?

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

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

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

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

6. What is the ambiguity effect?

7. How does climate change affect economy?

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

9. What is Zika and what are its effects?

10. What is permafrost?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss the role of the Neolithic Revolution in terms of climate change. How did the adjustment to an agrarian system affect culture and civilization? How did it affect the planet? Why do some individuals believe that the agrarian transition was a negative event?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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