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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 is the company called that owns the mine in Tuaba?
2. In what field of study does Prince Bjorn have a degree?
3. Where does T.R. go once he decides to leave Tuaba?
4. Once in the hospital where do Willem and Amelia go to stay for the rest of the day?
5. What does T.R. want to do on Sneeuwberg?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Saskia's new job that she takes on the condition that T.R. promise to actually listen to her?
2. Why does Rufus go back to speak to his Comanche grandmother Mary before taking up his new role of training Golden Eagles?
3. What does Fahd Bin Talal give to Saskia and why?
4. What is the significance of a plane that can fly in the stratosphere and deliver sulfur exactly where the people who control the plane want it to go?
5. Why are the white people at the T.R. Mick's gas station afraid of Laks?
6. Why is it important for India that Laks, a human, stop Pina2bo when it would be easier for a drone to do it?
7. According to Pippa and Rufus why would India choose Laks to go on a mission to Flying S?
8. What is T.R.'s plan for Sneeuwberg and why?
9. On the way to dropping off Laks at the Columbia River, what is Uncle Dharmender trying to say to Laks?
10. According to Pippa and Rufus what is performative war?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does the author bring in Idil Warsame and Sister Catherine? They come from places where people have other seemingly more important issues than climate change. Why does the author include their perspective in the book?
Essay Topic 2
When Willem is in the helicopter flying to the top of Sneeuwberg, what is the significance of Willem's thoughts about being outraged at seeing what the copper mine industry has done to the environment in Tuaba and these thoughts being immediately followed by the thoughts that every wind turbine feeding green energy into the Netherlands' grid is powered by copper that comes from the mine in Tuaba?
Essay Topic 3
What are the political concerns that the author presents with global geoengineering? How could countries use geoengineering for their own selfish agendas? What are the philosophical concerns that the author brings up throughout the book? When answering, consider China's motives around continuing to burn fossil fuel under the cover that launching sulfur will cancel out the harmful effects of burning fossil fuel. Consider also, what China does regarding flooding the Netherlands in order to manipulate the government.
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