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

2. The word "moral" comes from a Latin root signifying what?
(a) Omniscient.
(b) Godly.
(c) Good.
(d) Custom.

3. 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) Burmah-Shell.
(b) Esso.
(c) Standard Oil.
(d) Questerre Energy.

4. Near what town was the site of the first successful drilling at Oil Well Creek located?
(a) Albany, New York.
(b) Titusville, Pennsylvania.
(c) Hershey, Pennsylvania.
(d) Princeton, New Jersey.

5. The first steam-powered vessel to operate in India was a dredger on what river?
(a) The Hooghly River.
(b) The Feni River.
(c) The Ganges River.
(d) The Meghna River.

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 author asserts in Part II, Section 8, "Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon" what (108)?

3. Where is Mount Tambora in relation to Bali?

4. 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)?

5. The author states in Part II, Section 1, "If Bruno Latour is right, then to be modern is to envision time as" what (123)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Bruno Latour define modernity?

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

7. What was the Registry Act?

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

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

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

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