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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. When does the author describe marching in a massive antiwar demonstration in New York in Part III, Section 2?
2. Who wrote the novel Flight Behavior?
3. The author states in the opening of Part 1, Section 16, "To ask how science fiction came to be demarcated from the literary mainstream is to summon another question" (68). What is the question that he poses?
4. Where is Mount Tambora in relation to Bali?
5. What is the title and focus of Part II?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Bruno Latour define modernity?
2. What was the first steam-powered vessel to operate in India and how is it described?
3. How is "climate fiction" defined and who are some of the authors of this genre discussed in the book?
4. Who wrote the sonnet "The World is Too Much With Us" and why does the author discuss it in the book?
5. What does the author write of the universalist premise of industrial civilization?
6. What is noted from the manual Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan in Part II, Section 5?
7. Why is Mary Shelley discussed in Part I, Section 15?
8. How does the author compare the novels Rapture and Flight Behavior in the book?
9. How does the author describe the motivations for the push for oil consumption over coal in Part I, Section 17?
10. When did Mount Tambora erupt? How is this event described?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is climate change framed as a "moral issue" (132)? What does this term mean? Why does the author oppose this term? Do you agree with the author's assessment? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and analyze the structure of the Great Derangement. How does the author set up his thesis? How does he go about proving it? How are the chapters structured and why are they structured in this way?
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast the language and the intentions of the 2015 Paris Agreement with the papal encyclical of the same year, Laudato si'. What is the premise of each document? What is its relationship to climate change? Which of the two appears more sincere? Why?
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