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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many tons of dust did Mount Tambora emit when it erupted?
(a) 0.5 million.
(b) 1.7 million.
(c) 2.2 million.
(d) 4 million.

2. Who was Lord Byron accompanied by when he moved to Geneva?
(a) Dr. John Polidori.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) John Milton.
(d) Alfred Wegener.

3. Who "argues that one of the original impulses of modernity is the project of 'partitioning,' or deepening the imaginary gulf between Nature and Culture" (68)?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Bruno Latour.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Ernest Gellner.

4. The word "moral" comes from a Latin root signifying what?
(a) Custom.
(b) Good.
(c) Godly.
(d) Omniscient.

5. What word from the book refers to the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history, as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time?
(a) Sythet.
(b) Inundation.
(c) Corrolation.
(d) Zeitgeist.

6. Who was Mary Godwin's stepsister with whom Lord Byron had a brief affair in England?
(a) Mary.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Claire.
(d) Emma.

7. 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)?
(a) Eduardo Kohn.
(b) Arudhati Roy.
(c) Bill McKibben.
(d) Dipesh Chakrabarty.

8. The author asserts in Part II, Section 8, "Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon" what (108)?
(a) "Nature."
(b) "Stress and anxiety."
(c) "Fear and sorrow."
(d) "Admixture and interbreeding."

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

10. Who wrote, "Twentieth-century art has tended to search itself rather than exterior reality for beauty of meaning or truth, a condition that entails a new relationship between the work of art, the world, the spectator, and the artist" (119)?
(a) Arudhati Roy.
(b) Eduardo Kohn.
(c) Bill McKibben.
(d) Roger Shattuck.

11. What is the nearest town of any size to Mrauk-U?
(a) Chattogram.
(b) Cox's Bazar.
(c) Sittwe.
(d) Sythet.

12. Who is the author of Rapture?
(a) Liz Jensen.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Ernest Gellner.

13. The author states in Part II, Section 1, "If Bruno Latour is right, then to be modern is to envision time as" what (123)?
(a) "Irreversable."
(b) "Constant."
(c) "Reversable."
(d) "Functioning."

14. After the British deposited Thibaw, Burma's major oil wells passed into British control and became the nucleus of a megacorporation that was known until the 1960s as what?
(a) Standard Oil.
(b) Questerre Energy.
(c) Burmah-Shell.
(d) Esso.

15. Who wrote Germinal?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Emile Zola.
(c) Ernest Gellner.
(d) Ian Hacking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the author of The Malay Archipleago?

2. At whose behest were a number of wildlife sanctuaries established in the Burmese kingdom from the 1850s onward?

3. In what novel by the author does he describe a character experiencing the crossing of the Enterprise?

4. What is the title and central subject of Part III?

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

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