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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. How many tons of dust did Mount Tambora emit when it erupted?
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 author did Lionel Trilling famously dismiss as one who thought "like a social function, not a novelist" (79-80)?
4. The author states in Part II, Section 2, "In China, which feeds more than 20 percent of the world's population off 7 percent of the world's arable land, desertification is already causing direct annual losses of" how much (89)?
5. Who wrote The Retreat of the Elephants?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is "speculative fiction" defined?
2. Who wrote The Glass Palace and what is it about?
3. How does the author compare the novels Rapture and Flight Behavior in the book?
4. 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?
5. How does Bruno Latour define modernity?
6. What is noted from the manual Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan in Part II, Section 5?
7. How does the author describe the motivations for the push for oil consumption over coal in Part I, Section 17?
8. What was the first steam-powered vessel to operate in India and how is it described?
9. Why is Moby Dick discussed in the book? Who wrote this novel?
10. What was the Registry Act?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
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
Define and discuss the literary genres of fiction, science fiction, fantasy, magical fiction, and climate fiction (cli-fi). What do they share in common? What makes each unique? When did these genres emerge?
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