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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. Who wrote the poem "Darkness" following a volcanic eruption in the East Indies?
2. Who wrote in her book Motherhood, "The egoism of child-bearing is like the egoism of colonizing a country" (164)?
3. The recent Great Recession (2008) lowered the global GDP by about wht percentage in a onetime shock?
4. What is the approximate temperture of the greater San Francisco Bay Area currently (as of 2018)?
5. The author points out in "Economic Collapse" that "Every round-trip plane ticket from New York to London, keep in mind, costs the Arctic" how many more square meters of ice (147)?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the ideological contrast between China and Russia in terms of climate change.
2. What is described as "that basic promise extended by neoliberalism" in "Politics of Consumption" (225)?
3. What is permafrost?
4. How is plastic panic an example of climate parable?
5. What correlative statistics does the author provide regarding conflict and global warming in "Climate Conflict"?
6. Who was David Buckel and why is he discussed in the book?
7. What is Zika and what are its effects?
8. How many people were affected by the 1918 flu? What statistics for the plague are cited in "Plagues of Warning"?
9. What is UNICEF?
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 agriculture as it relates to climate change. How has agriculture in the U.S. and other countries changed as a result of global warming in the past century? How is it expected to change in the future? What are some of the biggest concerns regarding agriculture in a warming ecosystem?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
What is the Kyoto Protocol? When was it adopted? When was it entered into force? How many parties are there to the Protocol? What is its goal?
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