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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) Ian Hacking.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Amitav Ghosh.
(d) Franco Moretti.

2. Who was Lord Byron accompanied by when he moved to Geneva?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Alfred Wegener.
(c) Dr. John Polidori.
(d) John Milton.

3. When was The Circle of Reason published?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1995.
(d) 2002.

4. Who organized the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek?
(a) Colonel Edwin L. Drake.
(b) Colonel Thomas Burnet.
(c) Colonel George Marshall.
(d) Colonel Bill McKibben.

5. Who wrote the sonnet "The World Is Too Much With Us"?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Ernest Gellner.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) William Wordsworth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the First Opium War, armored steamships led by one named what, played a decisive role?

2. What is the title and focus of Part II?

3. How many tons of dust did Mount Tambora emit when it erupted?

4. When did Rabindranath Tagore win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

5. At whose behest were a number of wildlife sanctuaries established in the Burmese kingdom from the 1850s onward?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bruno Latour define modernity?

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

3. What was the Registry Act?

4. 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?

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

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

7. How is "speculative fiction" defined?

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

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

10. Who wrote The Glass Palace and what is it about?

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