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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. Who wrote Paradise Lost?
2. When did the great earthquake hit the Italian town of L'Aquila, according to the author in Part 1, Section 7?
3. On what night did the author read about a cataclysmic tsunami set off by a massive undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean, according to his narrative in Part 1, Section 9?
4. Who is described in Part 1, Section 6 as "a nineteenth-century Bengali writer and critic who self-consciously adopted the project of carving out fo a space in which realist European-style fiction could be written in the vernacular languages of India" (17)?
5. What neighborhoods of Long Island does the author describe looking out of on a flight into J.F.K. and thinking they were sure to be swamped in a storm surge in Part 1, Section 9?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the events around Hurricane Katrina. When did it occur?
2. What is the central metaphor made by the author in Part I, Section 1?
3. Describe how irony applies in the story about Henry Piddington.
4. Why is Bankim Chandra Chatterjee discussed in the narrative?
5. Describe the fallout from Hurricane Sandy. When did it develop?
6. Who wrote the novel A River Called Titash? What is it about?
7. What do beachfront locations symbolize, according to the author?
8. How are novels about climate change marginalized from mainstream literature, according to the author in Part I, Section 3?
9. How does the climate crisis relate to the human imagination, according to the author in Part I, Section 4?
10. In what ways are Mumbai and New York similar?
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
Describe and analyze the structure of the Great Derangement. How does the author set up his thesis? How does he go about proving it? How are the chapters structured and why are they structured in this way?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the importance of setting in literature. The author discusses setting as an important aspect in literature for what reasons? How does setting inform characters? How does it inform the action of the narrative?
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