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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 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) Ian Hacking.
(c) Ernest Gellner.
(d) Margaret Atwood.

2. The 1971 Bhola Cyclone is thought to have killed how many people?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 150,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 300,000.

3. The author's novel The Glass Palace touches upon a place in Burma where oil had bubbled up to the surface. What is the name of the place?
(a) Sythet.
(b) Chattogram.
(c) Dhaka.
(d) Yenangyaung.

4. Who wrote Paul et Virginie?
(a) Ernest Gellner.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Bernadin de Saint-Pierre.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

5. When does the author describe marching in a massive antiwar demonstration in New York in Part III, Section 2?
(a) September 6, 2005.
(b) February 15, 2003.
(c) May 4, 2001.
(d) June 4, 2005.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Part II, Section 2, "In China, which feeds more than 20 percent of the world's population off 7 percent of the world's arable land, desertification is already causing direct annual losses of" how much (89)?

2. The first steam-powered vessel to operate in India was a dredger on what river?

3. Who wrote Frankenstein?

4. When was the manuel Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan published?

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

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. 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?

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

4. How is "speculative fiction" defined?

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

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

7. What determined the shape of the global carbon economy, according to the author in Part II, Section 8?

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

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

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

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