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

2. Who wrote Cities of Salt?
(a) Franco Moretti.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Abdul Rahman Munif.

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

4. Where is Mrauk-U located?
(a) Burma.
(b) Bangladesh.
(c) Sri Lanka.
(d) Thailand.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Paul et Virginie?

2. When was the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek organized?

3. When was Frankenstein published?

4. Who wrote the novel Flight Behavior?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the author describe the motivations for the push for oil consumption over coal in Part I, Section 17?

3. What was the Registry Act?

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

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

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

7. Who was Mahatma Gandhi and why does the author discuss him in Part II, Section 9?

8. 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?

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

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

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