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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 did the Kosi River disaster in Bihar occur?
2. Who was Lord Byron accompanied by when he moved to Geneva?
3. Who wrote of the genres of science fiction and speculative fiction that they "all draw from the same deep well: those imagined other worlds located somewhere apart from our everyday one..." (72)?
4. Who was the author of The Malay Archipleago?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the author write of the universalist premise of industrial civilization?
2. Why is Moby Dick discussed in the book? Who wrote this novel?
3. How does the author describe the vessel called the Enterprise?
4. How does the author compare the novels Rapture and Flight Behavior in the book?
5. How does Bruno Latour define modernity?
6. Why is Mary Shelley discussed in Part I, Section 15?
7. What was the first steam-powered vessel to operate in India and how is it described?
8. Who wrote the sonnet "The World is Too Much With Us" and why does the author discuss it in the book?
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. What determined the shape of the global carbon economy, according to the author in Part II, Section 8?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is geological gradualism? When did this theory arise? What is its opposite? Connect this theory to climate change. How does gradualism apply in literature?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the polarization of climate change in Western politics. How is the political atmosphere where you live influenced by climate change? Why is climate change polarized by politics? How can this be changed in the future?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the impacts of the internet and technology on climate change and climate change activism. When did the internet first become commonplace in the American home? How has culture changed as a result? How is technology helpful in the fight against climate change?
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