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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 The Circle of Reason?
(a) Franco Moretti.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Amitav Ghosh.
2. When did the Enterprise depart Falmouth for Calcutta?
(a) September 5, 1825.
(b) June 15, 1825.
(c) August 16, 1825.
(d) March 12, 1825.
3. When was the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek organized?
(a) June 12, 1845.
(b) June 4, 1825.
(c) March 14, 1902.
(d) August 28, 1859.
4. The story The Vampyre was based on what vampyric aristocrat?
(a) August Darvell.
(b) Thomas Burnet.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) John Milton.
5. Who wrote Germinal?
(a) Emile Zola.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Ernest Gellner.
Short Answer Questions
1. When was Frankenstein published?
2. When did Robert Fulton launch the first commercial steamboat on the Hudson River?
3. Who is the author of Rapture?
4. When did Mount Tambora erupt, creating the greatest volcanic eruption in recorded history?
5. Who was Mary Godwin's stepsister with whom Lord Byron had a brief affair in England?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the Registry Act?
2. What determined the shape of the global carbon economy, according to the author in Part II, Section 8?
3. How does the author compare the novels Rapture and Flight Behavior in the book?
4. Why is Moby Dick discussed in the book? Who wrote this novel?
5. What does the author write of the universalist premise of industrial civilization?
6. What is noted from the manual Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan in Part II, Section 5?
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 vessel called the Enterprise?
9. Who wrote the sonnet "The World is Too Much With Us" and why does the author discuss it in the book?
10. What was the first steam-powered vessel to operate in India and how is it described?
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