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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 was the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek organized?
(a) June 4, 1825.
(b) August 28, 1859.
(c) June 12, 1845.
(d) March 14, 1902.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the sonnet "The World Is Too Much With Us"?

2. When did U. Thant serve as the secretary-general of the United Nations?

3. When did the Enterprise depart Falmouth for Calcutta?

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

5. When did Mount Tambora erupt, creating the greatest volcanic eruption in recorded history?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Bruno Latour define modernity?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. Who was Bernadin de Saint-Pierre and why is he discussed?

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

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