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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 does the author describe marching in a massive antiwar demonstration in New York in Part III, Section 2?

2. When did the Enterprise reach Calcutta on its crossing from Falmouth?

3. What geologist wrote, "Money flows toward short term gain and toward the over-exploitation of unregulated common resources" (110)?

4. Who organized the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek?

5. When did the Kosi River disaster in Bihar occur?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Mahatma Gandhi and why does the author discuss him in Part II, Section 9?

4. Who wrote the sonnet "The World is Too Much With Us" and why does the author discuss it in the book?

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

6. How is "speculative fiction" defined?

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

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

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

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

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

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 3

Discuss the importance of setting in literature. The author discusses setting as an important aspect in literature for what reasons? How does setting inform characters? How does it inform the action of the narrative?

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