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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the approximate temperture of the greater San Francisco Bay Area currently (as of 2018)?
(a) 11 degrees Celcius.
(b) 12 degrees Celcius.
(c) 13 degrees Celcius.
(d) 15 degrees Celcius.

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

3. What is referred as the world's most popular video game that "invites players into a competition for scarce resources during an extreme weather event" (175)?
(a) Fortnite.
(b) Minecraft.
(c) Children of Men.
(d) Spore.

4. For how many years approximately has farming existed in human culture?
(a) 12,000 years.
(b) 8,000 years.
(c) 3,000 years.
(d) 2,000 years.

5. According to a 2016 study, from 1980-210 what percentage of conflict in the world's ethnically diverse countries began in months stamped by weather disaster/
(a) 45%.
(b) 23%.
(c) 34%.
(d) 12%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from "Storytelling" means to collect or form into a mass or group?

2. 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)?

3. The author points out in "Politics of Consumption," "Eating organic is nice, in other words, but if your goal is to save the climate" what "is much more important" (224)?

4. Approximately how many people were evacuated due to Hurricane Irma?

5. What term from "Crisis Capitalism" refers to the situation wherein people build their "view of the universe outward from our own experience" (188)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is permafrost?

2. How is plastic panic an example of climate parable?

3. What is UNICEF?

4. What does "anchoring" refer to in behavioral psychology?

5. What is described as "that basic promise extended by neoliberalism" in "Politics of Consumption" (225)?

6. What is confirmation bias and how does it apply to global warming?

7. What is Zika and what are its effects?

8. What is malaria and how many people does it kill each year?

9. What is the Belt and Road Initiative?

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

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