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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 announced in 1964, "The humanist intellectual is, essentially, an expert on the written world" (84)?
2. When did Robert Fulton launch the first commercial steamboat on the Hudson River?
3. What does "Weltliteratur" translate to in English?
4. Who wrote the novel War and Peace?
5. The first steam-powered vessel to operate in India was a dredger on what river?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the author write of the universalist premise of industrial civilization?
2. How is "climate fiction" defined and who are some of the authors of this genre discussed in the book?
3. Why is Moby Dick discussed in the book? Who wrote this novel?
4. Why is Mary Shelley discussed in Part I, Section 15?
5. What is noted from the manual Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan in Part II, Section 5?
6. Who wrote the sonnet "The World is Too Much With Us" and why does the author discuss it in the book?
7. Who wrote The Glass Palace and what is it about?
8. What was the Registry Act?
9. How does the author describe the vessel called the Enterprise?
10. What was the first steam-powered vessel to operate in India and how is it described?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast the language and the intentions of the 2015 Paris Agreement with the papal encyclical of the same year, Laudato si'. What is the premise of each document? What is its relationship to climate change? Which of the two appears more sincere? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the reasons that climate change is not frequently addressed in contemporary literature. What aspects of climate change prove difficult for the writer to translate into novel form? What are some of the exceptions of contemporary authors who do write about climate change? What makes their work unique?
Essay Topic 3
How is climate change framed as a "moral issue" (132)? What does this term mean? Why does the author oppose this term? Do you agree with the author's assessment? Why or why not?
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