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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. Who announced in 1964, "The humanist intellectual is, essentially, an expert on the written world" (84)?
(a) Ernest Gellner.
(b) Franco Moretti.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

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

3. When was the manuel Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan published?
(a) The late 17th century.
(b) The late 18th century.
(c) The late 20th century.
(d) The late 19th century.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Rabindranath Tagore win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

2. In the First Opium War, armored steamships led by one named what, played a decisive role?

3. Where is Mount Tambora in relation to Bali?

4. Who wrote the novel Flight Behavior?

5. 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)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote the sonnet "The World is Too Much With Us" and why does the author discuss it in the book?

4. How does Bruno Latour define modernity?

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

6. How is "speculative fiction" defined?

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

8. What was the Registry Act?

9. How is "climate fiction" defined and who are some of the authors of this genre discussed in the book?

10. When did China undergo a "medieval economic revolution" (98) according to the author in Part II, Section 5? What were the impacts of this revolution?

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