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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 novel War and Peace?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Franco Moretti.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

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

3. Who is noted as having pointed out that the period of the Great Accelleration is precisely "the period of great decolonization in countries that had been dominated by European imperial powers" (109)?
(a) Arudhati Roy.
(b) Bill McKibben.
(c) Eduardo Kohn.
(d) Dipesh Chakrabarty.

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

5. Who was the author of The Malay Archipleago?
(a) Ernest Gellner.
(b) Alfred Russell Wallace.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who "argues that one of the original impulses of modernity is the project of 'partitioning,' or deepening the imaginary gulf between Nature and Culture" (68)?

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

3. When did Mahatma Gandhi write "God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West" (111)?

4. When did the Kosi River disaster in Bihar occur?

5. The Bengal Delta is formed by the confluence of what rivers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the Registry Act?

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

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

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

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

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

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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