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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 geologist wrote, "Money flows toward short term gain and toward the over-exploitation of unregulated common resources" (110)?
2. 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)?
3. 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?
4. When was The Circle of Reason published?
5. When did Robert Fulton launch the first commercial steamboat on the Hudson River?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is "climate fiction" defined and who are some of the authors of this genre discussed in the book?
2. How is "speculative fiction" defined?
3. How does the author describe the motivations for the push for oil consumption over coal in Part I, Section 17?
4. Who was Mahatma Gandhi and why does the author discuss him in Part II, Section 9?
5. How does the author describe the vessel called the Enterprise?
6. Who wrote The Glass Palace and what is it about?
7. What was the Registry Act?
8. Who was Bernadin de Saint-Pierre and why is he discussed?
9. What was the first steam-powered vessel to operate in India and how is it described?
10. What determined the shape of the global carbon economy, according to the author in Part II, Section 8?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the reasons that climate change is not frequently addressed in contemporary literature. What aspects of climate change prove difficult for the writer to translate into novel form? What are some of the exceptions of contemporary authors who do write about climate change? What makes their work unique?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss three examples of irony in The Great Derangement. What type of irony is used in each example? How does the example affect the mood/tone of the chapter? What effect does the irony have on the reader?
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