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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. What anthropologist wrote How Forests Think?
2. Who wrote the novel Flight Behavior?
3. The story The Vampyre was based on what vampyric aristocrat?
4. The author states in Part II, Section 1, "If Bruno Latour is right, then to be modern is to envision time as" what (123)?
5. Who wrote, "Twentieth-century art has tended to search itself rather than exterior reality for beauty of meaning or truth, a condition that entails a new relationship between the work of art, the world, the spectator, and the artist" (119)?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who wrote The Glass Palace and what is it about?
2. Who was Mahatma Gandhi and why does the author discuss him in Part II, Section 9?
3. What was the first steam-powered vessel to operate in India and how is it described?
4. How is "speculative fiction" defined?
5. What is noted from the manual Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan in Part II, Section 5?
6. How does the author describe the vessel called the Enterprise?
7. Who was Bernadin de Saint-Pierre and why is he discussed?
8. What does the author write of the universalist premise of industrial civilization?
9. When did China undergo a "medieval economic revolution" (98) according to the author in Part II, Section 5? What were the impacts of this revolution?
10. How does the author compare the novels Rapture and Flight Behavior in the book?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Define and discuss the literary genres of fiction, science fiction, fantasy, magical fiction, and climate fiction (cli-fi). What do they share in common? What makes each unique? When did these genres emerge?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the history of coal and oil production. Where were coal and oil first produced for energy? When and where were they first industrialized? What are the impacts of coal and oil production on the environment?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the narrative style of The Great Derangement. From what perspective is the narrative related? In what tense is it related? Did you feel enticed to keep reading based on the book's narrative style? Why or why not?
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