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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 Germinal?
2. The author states in the opening of Part 1, Section 16, "To ask how science fiction came to be demarcated from the literary mainstream is to summon another question" (68). What is the question that he poses?
3. What is the title and central subject of Part III?
4. Who was Lord Byron accompanied by when he moved to Geneva?
5. In the First Opium War, armored steamships led by one named what, played a decisive role?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is noted from the manual Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan in Part II, Section 5?
2. Who wrote the sonnet "The World is Too Much With Us" and why does the author discuss it in the book?
3. Who wrote The Glass Palace and what is it about?
4. What does the author write of the universalist premise of industrial civilization?
5. How does the author describe the motivations for the push for oil consumption over coal in Part I, Section 17?
6. How does the author describe the vessel called the Enterprise?
7. Who was Mahatma Gandhi and why does the author discuss him in Part II, Section 9?
8. What determined the shape of the global carbon economy, according to the author in Part II, Section 8?
9. Why is Mary Shelley discussed in Part I, Section 15?
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
Discuss the differences in literary form between the East and the West. How has the West influenced the literary forms of the East? How has the East influenced literary forms in the West? What is most prominent today? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the narrative style of The Great Derangement. From what perspective is the narrative related? In what tense is it related? Did you feel enticed to keep reading based on the book's narrative style? Why or why not?
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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