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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. When was the Treaty of Nanking signed on the Cornwallis?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1842.
(d) 1815.
2. When did the Enterprise depart Falmouth for Calcutta?
(a) September 5, 1825.
(b) June 15, 1825.
(c) March 12, 1825.
(d) August 16, 1825.
3. What is the nearest town of any size to Mrauk-U?
(a) Sittwe.
(b) Chattogram.
(c) Sythet.
(d) Cox's Bazar.
4. When did the Enterprise reach Calcutta on its crossing from Falmouth?
(a) September 5, 1825.
(b) August 16, 1825.
(c) December 7, 1825.
(d) March 12, 1825.
5. When did Robert Fulton launch the first commercial steamboat on the Hudson River?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1829.
(c) 1807.
(d) 1811.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who wrote the sonnet "The World Is Too Much With Us"?
2. Who wrote Frankenstein?
3. When does the author describe marching in a massive antiwar demonstration in New York in Part III, Section 2?
4. When did U. Thant serve as the secretary-general of the United Nations?
5. 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)?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author compare the novels Rapture and Flight Behavior in the book?
2. 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?
3. How does Bruno Latour define modernity?
4. What does the author write of the universalist premise of industrial civilization?
5. Who was Mahatma Gandhi and why does the author discuss him in Part II, Section 9?
6. What determined the shape of the global carbon economy, according to the author in Part II, Section 8?
7. How is "speculative fiction" defined?
8. What was the first steam-powered vessel to operate in India and how is it described?
9. How does the author describe the motivations for the push for oil consumption over coal in Part I, Section 17?
10. How does the author describe the vessel called the Enterprise?
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