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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 word from "Storytelling" means to collect or form into a mass or group?
2. Who was known as the Unibomber?
3. What is the name of Robert Kennedy's memoir of the Cuban missile crisis?
4. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to "our tendency to wait for others to act rather than acting ourselves" (188)?
5. According to the author in "Climate Conflict," "Over the last decade, researchers have even managed to quantify some of the nonobvious relationships between temperature and violence: for every half degree of warming, they say, societies will see" between what percent increase in the likelihood of armed conflict (152)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is malaria and how many people does it kill each year?
2. Who was David Buckel and why is he discussed in the book?
3. What is Lyme disease and how many are affected by it yearly?
4. How many people were affected by the 1918 flu? What statistics for the plague are cited in "Plagues of Warning"?
5. Why is the narrative of climate change difficult to translate to film?
6. What is UNICEF?
7. What is permafrost?
8. What is confirmation bias and how does it apply to global warming?
9. How is plastic panic an example of climate parable?
10. What are some of the examples of climate devastation presented on-screen discussed in "Storytelling"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the impacts of global warming region-by-region if the earth's temperature raises by two degrees Celsius. How would this impact coastal areas? How would inland areas be affected? What regions would be impacted the worst?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the correlations between technology and climate change. In what ways might technology "save us" (202)? What stands in the way of technology helping prevent accelerated global warming? What might advances mean for the world?
Essay Topic 3
Why is climate change not largely addressed in film, television, literature, and the media? What aspects of this crisis make it not frequently dramatized? How do you think it would change things if climate change were central in the plot of these narratives?
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