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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 Moby Dick?

2. Who was Lord Byron accompanied by when he moved to Geneva?

3. When did Mahatma Gandhi write "God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West" (111)?

4. Who wrote the novel Flight Behavior?

5. When did Robert Fulton launch the first commercial steamboat on the Hudson River?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Mary Shelley discussed in Part I, Section 15?

2. How does the author describe the motivations for the push for oil consumption over coal in Part I, Section 17?

3. How is "speculative fiction" defined?

4. What determined the shape of the global carbon economy, according to the author in Part II, Section 8?

5. Who wrote The Glass Palace and what is it about?

6. How does the author compare the novels Rapture and Flight Behavior in the book?

7. When did Mount Tambora erupt? How is this event described?

8. Who was Bernadin de Saint-Pierre and why is he discussed?

9. What is noted from the manual Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan in Part II, Section 5?

10. How does Bruno Latour define modernity?

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

Discuss the history of the British Empire. When did Great Britain take control of India? What other areas in Asia and Africa were colonized by the British? What were the global climactic impacts of Britain's imperial reign?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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