1. When did the Enterprise reach Calcutta on its crossing from Falmouth?
(a) December 7, 1825.
(b) March 12, 1825.
(c) August 16, 1825.
(d) September 5, 1825.

2. When was The Hungry Tide published?
(a) 2006.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2004.

3. 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)?
(a) $25 billion.
(b) $65 billion.
(c) $75 billion.
(d) $45 billion.

4. When did Mahatma Gandhi write "God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West" (111)?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1945.

5. In what century were Mumbai, Chennai, New York, and Charleston founded?
(a) The 18th century.
(b) The 16th century.
(c) The 17th century.
(d) The 16th century.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote of the genres of science fiction and speculative fiction that they "all draw from the same deep well: those imagined other worlds located somewhere apart from our everyday one..." (72)?

2. When did the Enterprise depart Falmouth for Calcutta?

3. What author did Lionel Trilling famously dismiss as one who thought "like a social function, not a novelist" (79-80)?

4. Where is Mrauk-U located?

5. Who was Mary Godwin's stepsister with whom Lord Byron had a brief affair in England?

(see the answer key)

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