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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Bill McKibben.
(b) Eduardo Kohn.
(c) Arudhati Roy.
(d) Dipesh Chakrabarty.

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

4. Near what town was the site of the first successful drilling at Oil Well Creek located?
(a) Hershey, Pennsylvania.
(b) Albany, New York.
(c) Titusville, Pennsylvania.
(d) Princeton, New Jersey.

5. 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)?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Margaret Atwood.
(c) Ernest Gellner.
(d) Ian Hacking.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Enterprise reach Calcutta on its crossing from Falmouth?

2. What John Sayles's film is praised by the author in Part I, Section 17?

3. Who is the author of Rapture?

4. Who wrote Cities of Salt?

5. Who organized the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Moby Dick discussed in the book? Who wrote this novel?

2. How does Bruno Latour define modernity?

3. What does the author write of the universalist premise of industrial civilization?

4. How does the author describe the vessel called the Enterprise?

5. How is "speculative fiction" defined?

6. What was the first steam-powered vessel to operate in India and how is it described?

7. How does the author compare the novels Rapture and Flight Behavior in the book?

8. What is noted from the manual Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan in Part II, Section 5?

9. When did Mount Tambora erupt? How is this event described?

10. Why is Mary Shelley discussed in Part I, Section 15?

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