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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 happens to the helicopter after it lands?
2. What is Alastair's word for "complicated and messy holdovers from obsolete code" (519)?
3. What does kwihnai mean in English?
4. Who are the two other falconers that join Rufus in the chapter titled Eight Months Later?
5. What are the falconers and Rufus training the eagles to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does India shut down all the electronics at Flying S? How is this part of the performative war?
2. Who takes military control of Papua and why?
3. Why is it important for India that Laks, a human, stop Pina2bo when it would be easier for a drone to do it?
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. What is the first deepfake video involving Saskia about?
6. In light of more falconers coming to Flying S Ranch, what does Rufus take up as his new role at Flying S?
7. According to Pippa and Rufus why would India choose Laks to go on a mission to Flying S?
8. In the chapter titled "St. Patrick's," who does it seem is fighting whom and why?
9. On the way to dropping off Laks at the Columbia River, what is Uncle Dharmender trying to say to Laks?
10. In the chapter titled "Rijsttafel," what is Willem trying to tell T.R.?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Does this book change how you view the real climate conversation that the world is having right now? Does it change your opinion of how to make the climate better or at least less bad? How does the book affect your view surrounding the complications of global efforts to change the climate and governments' roles in coming up with solutions? Who's responsibility is it to find climate solutions? Governments? Private companies? Private citizens?
Essay Topic 2
There are stories that are meant to entertain and stories that are meant to have a message or start a conversation. There are stories that do both. What kind of story is Termination Shock? What are the elements in this book that guide your judgment?
Essay Topic 3
What is Termination Shock in the context of this book? What does that idea mean? Does the idea of termination shock seem to play a major or minor role in the story? When and where is termination shock brought up in the story? Is it brought up consistently? Do you think the author meant it to be more of a background consideration or to play a significant role in how the reader interprets the book?
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