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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 movie does the author reference in Part 1, Section 1 as an illustration of the inanimate being revealed to be animate?
2. Where is Adam Sobel a professor of atmospheric science?
3. Who is described in Part 1, Section 3 as "one of the finest prose stylists of our time, she is passionate and deeply informed about climate change. Yet all her writings on these subjects are in various forms of nonfiction" (8)?
4. Who wrote An Attempt to Develop the Law of Storms in 1828?
5. What nuclear facility is located near Mumbai's urban limits?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the tsunami invert the system of rank on the Nicobars?
2. Describe how irony applies in the story about Henry Piddington.
3. What does the author write about unpredictable events in literature?
4. To what does the author attribute mankind's tendency toward living near bodies of water?
5. How does the climate crisis relate to the human imagination, according to the author in Part I, Section 4?
6. Describe the fallout from Hurricane Sandy. When did it develop?
7. Who wrote The Hungry Tide and what is it about?
8. Why does the author reference "The Climate of History" in Part I, Section 4? Who wrote this essay?
9. What is the significance of the flood described in Part I, Section 2?
10. How are novels about climate change marginalized from mainstream literature, according to the author in Part I, Section 3?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
Discuss three examples of irony in The Great Derangement. What type of irony is used in each example? How does the example affect the mood/tone of the chapter? What effect does the irony have on the reader?
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