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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 Frankenstein?
2. When did Robert Fulton launch the first commercial steamboat on the Hudson River?
3. In 1991, a cyclone in Bangladesh resulted in 138,000 people dead. What percentage of them were women?
4. What is the title and central subject of Part III?
5. Who wrote Cities of Salt?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Mary Shelley discussed in Part I, Section 15?
2. Who was Mahatma Gandhi and why does the author discuss him in Part II, Section 9?
3. Who wrote the sonnet "The World is Too Much With Us" and why does the author discuss it in the book?
4. When did Mount Tambora erupt? How is this event described?
5. How does the author compare the novels Rapture and Flight Behavior in the book?
6. Who was Bernadin de Saint-Pierre and why is he discussed?
7. What does the author write of the universalist premise of industrial civilization?
8. What is noted from the manual Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan in Part II, Section 5?
9. Who wrote The Glass Palace and what is it about?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the biography and works of author Amitav Ghosh. Where is the author from? Where did he grow up? Where did he study? How many novels has he written? What are common themes in Ghosh's works?
Essay Topic 2
Why does the author make a call for religious leaders to take a stand on climate change? How might this influence change globally? What are the current positions of religious leaders regarding climate change?
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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