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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. When did the Enterprise reach Calcutta on its crossing from Falmouth?
2. The story The Vampyre was based on what vampyric aristocrat?
3. What author did Lionel Trilling famously dismiss as one who thought "like a social function, not a novelist" (79-80)?
4. Who wrote, "Twentieth-century art has tended to search itself rather than exterior reality for beauty of meaning or truth, a condition that entails a new relationship between the work of art, the world, the spectator, and the artist" (119)?
5. Who organized the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Bruno Latour define modernity?
2. Why is Mary Shelley discussed in Part I, Section 15?
3. Who was Mahatma Gandhi and why does the author discuss him in Part II, Section 9?
4. Who wrote The Glass Palace and what is it about?
5. What determined the shape of the global carbon economy, according to the author in Part II, Section 8?
6. How is "speculative fiction" defined?
7. Who wrote the sonnet "The World is Too Much With Us" and why does the author discuss it in the book?
8. What is noted from the manual Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan in Part II, Section 5?
9. How does the author describe the vessel called the Enterprise?
10. How does the author describe the motivations for the push for oil consumption over coal in Part I, Section 17?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the history of coal and oil production. Where were coal and oil first produced for energy? When and where were they first industrialized? What are the impacts of coal and oil production on the environment?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the polarization of climate change in Western politics. How is the political atmosphere where you live influenced by climate change? Why is climate change polarized by politics? How can this be changed in the future?
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