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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 type of eagles do the falconers have?

2. What causes Laks to smell something incredibly disagreeable as he is putting on his turban outside the gas station?

3. How is Laks' flying chariot drone injured?

4. What happens to the helicopter after it lands?

5. What is Uncle Ed's business?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is T.R.'s plan for Sneeuwberg and why?

2. Why does Rufus go back to speak to his Comanche grandmother Mary before taking up his new role of training Golden Eagles?

3. Why are the white people at the T.R. Mick's gas station afraid of Laks?

4. What is the first deepfake video involving Saskia about?

5. In the chapter titled "Rijsttafel," what is Willem trying to tell T.R.?

6. What is Saskia's new job that she takes on the condition that T.R. promise to actually listen to her?

7. According to Pippa and Rufus what is performative war?

8. According to Pippa and Rufus why would India choose Laks to go on a mission to Flying S?

9. On the way to dropping off Laks at the Columbia River, what is Uncle Dharmender trying to say to Laks?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many of the important characters in the book are engineers or mechanics or scientists in some way. Why do you think that is? Does the author seem to have a special affinity for engineers and scientists? How does engineering and science play a role in the authors real life? How do you think that shows up in the book?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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