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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percent of the world's mammals (by weight) are currently wild?
(a) 6%.
(b) 9%.
(c) 2%.
(d) 4%.

2. What term from "Crisis Capitalism" refers to the situation wherein people build their "view of the universe outward from our own experience" (188)?
(a) Anthropocentric thinking.
(b) Default effect.
(c) The ambiguity effect.
(d) Agglomerate thinking.

3. Who wrote Against the Grain?
(a) Roy Scranton.
(b) David Buckel.
(c) James C. Scott.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

4. According to the author, almost how many people are displace and wandering the planet right now as a result of political and social instability (154)?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 70 million.
(c) 40 million.
(d) 50 million.

5. Yellow fever is estimated to kill approximately what percentage of those infected?
(a) 2-4%.
(b) 8-10%.
(c) 10-12%.
(d) 3-8%.

6. What percent of the world's landmass was altered by humans between 1992 and 2015?
(a) 19%.
(b) 12%.
(c) 22%.
(d) 34%.

7. Who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore?
(a) Jair Bolsonaro.
(b) William Vollmann.
(c) Camille Parmesan.
(d) Irakli Loladze.

8. Who is the author of The Progress of This Storm?
(a) Andreas Malm.
(b) Roy Scranton.
(c) Paul Ehrlich.
(d) David Buckel.

9. When did Hurricane Mitch strike Central America?
(a) 2002.
(b) 1998.
(c) 1995.
(d) 2012.

10. Approximately how many people die from malaria each year currently (as of 2018)?
(a) 1.5 million.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 2 million.
(d) 1 million.

11. Who wrote The Great Divergence?
(a) Kenneth Pomeranz.
(b) Jair Bolsonaro.
(c) Amitav Ghosh.
(d) William Nordhaus.

12. In 2017, Solomon Hsiang and Trevor Houser calculated that Hurricane Maria could take how long for the economy of the island to return to even the level it enjoyed just before the storm?
(a) 26.
(b) 54.
(c) 36.
(d) 19.

13. Who wrote the book-length essay The Great Derangement?
(a) H. G. Wells.
(b) Amitav Ghosh.
(c) William Nordhaus.
(d) Jair Bolsonaro.

14. Who won the 2016 Nobel Prize alongside Paul Romer?
(a) William Nordhaus.
(b) Amitav Ghosh.
(c) Paul Ehrlich.
(d) Jair Bolsonaro.

15. Who are the two "Climate Mao" leaders in the world today that are described by the author in "Politics of Consumption"?
(a) Xi Pinping and Donald Trump.
(b) Paul Ehrlich and Donald Trump.
(c) Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
(d) Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, what percent of evacuees exceeded the diagnosit threshold for acute stress disorder?

2. When did labor historian Eric Hobsbawm write "Whoever says Industrial Revolution, says cotton" (140)?

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

4. The author states in "Climate Conflict" that climate change has already elevated Africa's risk of conflict by more than what percentage?

5. Who wrote in her book Motherhood, "The egoism of child-bearing is like the egoism of colonizing a country" (164)?

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