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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 word from the book refers to the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history, as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time?
2. Who "argues that one of the original impulses of modernity is the project of 'partitioning,' or deepening the imaginary gulf between Nature and Culture" (68)?
3. What word from Part II, Section 8 means ruling or dominant in a political or social context?
4. The author states in Part II, Section 2, "In China, which feeds more than 20 percent of the world's population off 7 percent of the world's arable land, desertification is already causing direct annual losses of" how much (89)?
5. In 1991, a cyclone in Bangladesh resulted in 138,000 people dead. What percentage of them were women?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe the motivations for the push for oil consumption over coal in Part I, Section 17?
2. How does the author compare the novels Rapture and Flight Behavior in the book?
3. How is "speculative fiction" defined?
4. How is "climate fiction" defined and who are some of the authors of this genre discussed in the book?
5. When did China undergo a "medieval economic revolution" (98) according to the author in Part II, Section 5? What were the impacts of this revolution?
6. What is noted from the manual Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan in Part II, Section 5?
7. How does Bruno Latour define modernity?
8. Why is Moby Dick discussed in the book? Who wrote this novel?
9. Who wrote the sonnet "The World is Too Much With Us" and why does the author discuss it in the book?
10. Who was Bernadin de Saint-Pierre and why is he discussed?
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 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?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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