4-16-25 New Shorter Works/Environmental Lit

Human activity had a notable impact on climate beginning in the era known as

In "The Toxic Donut," the tone used by Ron the announcer is BEST described as

Which of the following Nobel Laureates does Amanda Gorman cite as a key inspiration?

Which of the following events took place in the fictional past of "The Machine Stops"?

Who is an astrobotanist?

In "Freeway 280," the speaker finds connection in

Which of the following poets turned to poetry in part to help counteract a speech impediment?

Which of the following plants is of GREATEST interest to Robin Wall Kimmerer?

How long did Henry David Thoreau live in nature, outside the conventions of society?

Literary criticism or ways of reading literature could include each of the following perspectives, EXCEPT

The tone of Camille T. Dungy’s “The Blue” is BEST described as

The MOST prominent use of epizeuxis in Amanda Gorman's "Our Purpose in Poetry: or, Earthrise" focuses on the word

Heather McHugh’s poetry is MOST distinctive for the delight it takes in

Petroculture is the study of climate in relation to

For Camille T. Dungy, writing is MOST similar to

Why do the at-risk youth in "Epiphany in the Beans" not believe at first that the food they have harvested is free?

The essay "Once More to the Lake" has themes of the following EXCEPT

What is the mission of the protagonists in Chen Quifan’s “Space Leek”?

What is compared to the coal furnace in Marge Piercy’s “The air smelled dirty”?

What does Lorna Dee Cervantes’s poem “Highway 280” praise about the community that lives near the highway?

From which work is the quotation “They help us bridge the gap of human imagination between one another”?

In William Wordsworth’s “The World Is Too Much with Us,” the sea is personified as a(n)

Claude I. Smith and Rudi Mattoni appear in

What world-historic event MOST affected poet Oliver Baez Bendorf?

What does Chen Quifan believe is the root cause of present-day unhappiness?

MOST likely to be skeptical of a society that took a primarily logical, scientific view to understanding humanity/world?

The greatest irony in "Webcam the World" is

How does the text of "The Toxic Donut" reveal that Kim is from a place in the Global South?

A volta is a turning point in

The ongoing negative legacy of colonialism is an important topic in

What genre of literature does H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine participate in?

The phrase “dug it down in the dark” from Marge Piercy’s poem “The air smelled dirty” exemplifies

“Highway 280” contrasts the lifeless imagery of the highway with

Who wrote The Future of Environmental Criticism, published in 2005?

What attitude BEST characterizes the English Romantic attitude toward the ruling class?

Amanda Gorman dedicated "Our Purpose in Poetry: or, Earthrise" to The Climate Reality Project and

The title "Space Leek" contains

Dan Bloom coined the term

America's awarement of the dangers of DDT and insecticides was galvanized by the work of

In the televised ceremony for "The Toxic Donut", the host is celebrity

Which of the following poets also works as a librarian?

The author of "Once More to the Lake" also wrote

The line, "The old man Fowzi, for example, Fowzi the fool" contains each of the following EXCEPT

In Camille T. Dungy’s “The Blue,” the featured scientists analyze nature and also

The poem "Earthrise" makes heavy use of each of the following EXCEPT

In "The air smelled dirty," the clinkers are ominous because

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye portrays “stitching ... children’s dresses” as a form of

Each of the following would be typical in a Petrarchan sonnet EXCEPT

What poet has been specifically commended for balancing “gravity and humor”?

In the final lines of Piercy’s “The air smelled...” what juxtaposed appliance symbolically contrasts w/the coal furnace?

Who deserves the MOST credit for 1st educating the public about interconnectedness of people, technology & environment?

In "The Machine Stops", statement P.42232748 in the Book of the Machine asserts that

Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower explores the struggles of

In "Evergreen," the speaker equates the train with

“Webcam the World” offers all of the following images of the world as worthy to be saved EXCEPT

How are we going to do at Online Nationals?

Who wrote "Bears Discover Fire"?

Transcendentalists were among the first intellectuals in the West to encounter all of the following religions EXCEPT

According to Lawrence Buell, the more a place is cherished, the more

Why do "some simply pray / To survive another day", according to "Our Purpose in Poetry: or, Earthrise"?

At the end of “Different Ways to Pray,” Fowzi is a(n)

In "Epiphany in the Beans," the speaker's greatest realization is that

Shared humanity is an especially predominant theme in the writings of both

The survival of Smith's Blue butterfly is threatened by each of the following EXCEPT

In Part 3 of "The Machine Stops", the Machine becomes the subject of a(n)

Who called for people to develop new inspired revelations rather than relying on sacred books of the past?

Unique aspects of the vision in "The Machine Stops" include each of the following EXCEPT that it

Oliver Baez Bendorf believes poems are

William Wordsworth’s sentence “Great God!” in “The World Is Too Much with Us” is an example of

Miller's Canticle for Leibowitz: future civil. is impacted by raids, tribal wars, devastation. Most fits into category:

Near the end of "Once More to the Lake", the author compares thunder to the sound of

Early environmental texts in the US can be traced most clearly to the

What religious tradition is MOST reflected in Marge Piercy’s poetry?

Which of the following magazines employed E.B. White for the LONGEST period?

"Epiphany in the Beans" describes the co-evolution of humans and the crops they domesticated using the example of

What is the first “method” by which people pray in “Different Ways to Pray”?

American transcendentialist supported