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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Section 5 - Part III, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The story The Vampyre was based on what vampyric aristocrat?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) John Milton.
(c) August Darvell.
(d) Thomas Burnet.

2. In what novel by the author does he describe a character experiencing the crossing of the Enterprise?
(a) The Hungry Tide.
(b) Sea of Poppies.
(c) The Shadow Lines.
(d) Flood of Fire.

3. When did Robert Fulton launch the first commercial steamboat on the Hudson River?
(a) 1807.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1829.

4. When was The Circle of Reason published?
(a) 2002.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1986.

5. 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?
(a) "Who makes the decisions of literary form?"
(b) "What is in the nature of modernity that has led to this separation?"
(c) "Who are the writers of this genre?"
(d) "What is the meaning of science fiction and what is its place in society?"

Short Answer Questions

1. The novel The Circle of Reason involves the discovery of oil in a fictional emirate called what?

2. Who is the primatologist that insisted on "the unity of all elements on the planet earth--living and non-living" (64)?

3. What is one of India's most important scientific bodies that is located at the southernmost tip of Mumbai?

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. In what century were Mumbai, Chennai, New York, and Charleston founded?

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