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

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

3. Who was the author of The Malay Archipleago?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Alfred Russell Wallace.
(c) Ernest Gellner.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

4. The Bengal Delta is formed by the confluence of what rivers?
(a) The Meghna and the Ganges.
(b) The Ganges and the Brahmaputra.
(c) The Muhuri and the Padma.
(d) The Feni and the Ganges.

5. 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) Flood of Fire.
(d) The Shadow Lines.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Kosi River disaster in Bihar occur?

2. Who wrote of coal mines, "the militancy that formed in these workplaces was typically an effort to defend this autonomy" (74)?

3. Where is Mount Tambora in relation to Bali?

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

5. The story The Vampyre was based on what vampyric aristocrat?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. How is "speculative fiction" defined?

10. How does Bruno Latour define modernity?

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