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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. Who was Mary Godwin's stepsister with whom Lord Byron had a brief affair in England?

3. Who was the author of The Malay Archipleago?

4. When was Frankenstein published?

5. When was The Circle of Reason published?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the author write of the universalist premise of industrial civilization?

3. Why is Moby Dick discussed in the book? Who wrote this novel?

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

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

6. What was the Registry Act?

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

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

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

10. How is "climate fiction" defined and who are some of the authors of this genre discussed in the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the reasons that Asians are particularly vulnerable to climate change. How is the populous is Asia? What major cities are on coastlines? How is Asia's infrastructure described?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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