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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 Flight Behavior?
(a) Barbara Kingsolver.
(b) Ernest Gellner.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.
2. Who was Lord Byron accompanied by when he moved to Geneva?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Dr. John Polidori.
(c) Alfred Wegener.
(d) John Milton.
3. Who wrote of coal mines, "the militancy that formed in these workplaces was typically an effort to defend this autonomy" (74)?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Franco Moretti.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Timothy Mitchell.
4. Who organized the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek?
(a) Colonel George Marshall.
(b) Colonel Edwin L. Drake.
(c) Colonel Thomas Burnet.
(d) Colonel Bill McKibben.
5. Who wrote, "Twentieth-century art has tended to search itself rather than exterior reality for beauty of meaning or truth, a condition that entails a new relationship between the work of art, the world, the spectator, and the artist" (119)?
(a) Roger Shattuck.
(b) Eduardo Kohn.
(c) Arudhati Roy.
(d) Bill McKibben.
Short Answer Questions
1. What John Sayles's film is praised by the author in Part I, Section 17?
2. Who announced in 1964, "The humanist intellectual is, essentially, an expert on the written world" (84)?
3. Who wrote Paul et Virginie?
4. The 1971 Bhola Cyclone is thought to have killed how many people?
5. About how long ago did China go through a "medieval economic revolution," according to the author in Part II, Section 5 (96)?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is "climate fiction" defined and who are some of the authors of this genre discussed in the book?
2. How does the author compare the novels Rapture and Flight Behavior in the book?
3. How is "speculative fiction" defined?
4. What was the first steam-powered vessel to operate in India and how is it described?
5. What does the author write of the universalist premise of industrial civilization?
6. Who wrote The Glass Palace and what is it about?
7. 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?
8. Who was Bernadin de Saint-Pierre and why is he discussed?
9. Why is Moby Dick discussed in the book? Who wrote this novel?
10. When did Mount Tambora erupt? How is this event described?
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