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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Guy McPherson begin his career as a conservation biologist?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) The University of Arizona.
(c) The University of California.
(d) New York University.

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

4. 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) 36.
(b) 26.
(c) 19.
(d) 54.

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

6. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to "the tendency to choose the present option over alternatives" (189)?
(a) Default effect.
(b) The ambiguity effect.
(c) Anthropocentric thinking.
(d) Confirmation bias.

7. In 2018, the World Bank estimated that the current path of carbon emissions would sharply diminish the living condition of how many people living throughout South Asia?
(a) 900 million.
(b) 800 million.
(c) 700 million.
(d) 500 million.

8. The author states in "Climate Conflict" that climate change has already elevated Africa's risk of conflict by more than what percentage?
(a) 10%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 5.%.

9. What word from "Storytelling" refers to the process of giving an animal or object human attributes?
(a) Agglomerate.
(b) Anthropocentrize.
(c) Anthropomorphize.
(d) Metaphorphosize.

10. 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)?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

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

12. Who is the author of The Time Machine?
(a) H. G. Wells.
(b) William Nordhaus.
(c) Amitav Ghosh.
(d) Jair Bolsonaro.

13. The Great Depression dropped global GDP by about what percent?
(a) 15%.
(b) 18%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 32%.

14. Who authored The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers?
(a) Paul Michael Kennedy.
(b) Paul Ehrlich.
(c) Roy Scranton.
(d) David Buckel.

15. Who authored The Shock Doctrine?
(a) Amitav Ghosh.
(b) Naomi Klein.
(c) Jair Bolsonaro.
(d) William Nordhaus.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Who wrote Learning to Die in the Anthropocene and We're Doomed. Now What?

3. The author notes in "Systems" that what climate scientists refer to as "systems crises," he refers to as what?

4. According to a 2018 study by the Union of Concerned Scientists, how many American homes and businesses will suffer chronic flooding by 2100?

5. In 2018, scientists revived a worm that had been frozen in permafrost for approximately how many years?

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