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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. What author did Lionel Trilling famously dismiss as one who thought "like a social function, not a novelist" (79-80)?
2. Who is noted as having pointed out that the period of the Great Accelleration is precisely "the period of great decolonization in countries that had been dominated by European imperial powers" (109)?
3. What word from Part II, Section 8 means ruling or dominant in a political or social context?
4. In the First Opium War, armored steamships led by one named what, played a decisive role?
5. In 1991, a cyclone in Bangladesh resulted in 138,000 people dead. What percentage of them were women?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was Mahatma Gandhi and why does the author discuss him in Part II, Section 9?
2. Why is Mary Shelley discussed in Part I, Section 15?
3. Who wrote The Glass Palace and what is it about?
4. Who was Bernadin de Saint-Pierre and why is he discussed?
5. How does the author describe the vessel called the Enterprise?
6. What is noted from the manual Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan in Part II, Section 5?
7. How is "speculative fiction" defined?
8. What was the first steam-powered vessel to operate in India and how is it described?
9. What determined the shape of the global carbon economy, according to the author in Part II, Section 8?
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
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 2
How is climate change framed as a "moral issue" (132)? What does this term mean? Why does the author oppose this term? Do you agree with the author's assessment? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the themes of freedom and modernity in The Great Derangement. How does the author define these terms? How are they defined by others? What statements is the author making about freedom and modernity?
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