Exam
1 Study Guide
Literature and the
Environment, Spring 2024, O'Donnell
last
updated: February 26, 2024
Exam date: Monday, March 4, 2024
This exam counts for 25% of the final grade.
Exam
Guidelines and Format
The exam will present you with a choice of 10 identification
prompts--significant quotes, terms or phrases, proper nouns--which will in turn
be drawn from the 17 prompts listed below.
Out of the 10 prompts on the exam, you will then, in turn,
choose 8. For each of those 8, you will write a "mini essay" -- that
is, three or four clear, complete, self-explanatory sentences -- in which you
identify 1) the context or definition; 2) the author(s) and text(s) with which
prompt is associated; 3) an important issue associated with the prompt.
Please note that, while you may write practice responses
ahead of time, I will require you to compose your prompts on the spot, during
the exam, rather than copying pre-composed responses directly from your notes. Each
response must be in the form of complete sentences.
17
Prompts
1.
Gilded Age
2.
Progressive Era
3.
Checkov's gun
4.
Horace Albright
5.
"'They ain't one thing can kill a man like you . . .'"
6. 350.org
7. "'If fight or flight is
the choice, it's way easier to fly'."
8. "Global Exchange"
9. "Above the lake of the
world, flanked by white mountains, they flew out to a new earth."
10. "'It's the same damned company, Tina, the
Advancement of Sound Science. Look it up, why don't you. They went off the
Philip Morris payroll and into the Exxon pocket'."
11. Old River Control Auxiliary
Structure
12. The sixth extinction
13. "What do
you call natural selection after The End of Nature?"
14. CRISPR
15. Stockholm species
16. Carolina Parakeet
17. Anthropocene