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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. After the British deposited Thibaw, Burma's major oil wells passed into British control and became the nucleus of a megacorporation that was known until the 1960s as what?
(a) Standard Oil.
(b) Esso.
(c) Questerre Energy.
(d) Burmah-Shell.

2. How many tons of dust did Mount Tambora emit when it erupted?
(a) 4 million.
(b) 1.7 million.
(c) 0.5 million.
(d) 2.2 million.

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

4. When did U. Thant serve as the secretary-general of the United Nations?
(a) 1971-1979.
(b) 1945-1959.
(c) 1962-1971.
(d) 1975-1982.

5. When was Frankenstein published?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1802.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Circle of Reason?

2. What is the nearest town of any size to Mrauk-U?

3. What is the title and central subject of Part III?

4. 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?

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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Bruno Latour define modernity?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How is "speculative fiction" defined?

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

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