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

2. Who wrote Cities of Salt?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Franco Moretti.
(d) Abdul Rahman Munif.

3. Who wrote The Circle of Reason?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Franco Moretti.
(c) Amitav Ghosh.
(d) Ian Hacking.

4. Who wrote Frankenstein?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Ernest Gellner.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Mary Shelley.

5. What John Sayles's film is praised by the author in Part I, Section 17?
(a) Lone Star.
(b) Matewan.
(c) The Brother from Another Planet.
(d) Passion Fish.

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. Who wrote Paul et Virginie?

3. When did Mount Tambora erupt, creating the greatest volcanic eruption in recorded history?

4. 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)?

5. 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)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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 vessel called the Enterprise?

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

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

8. Why is Moby Dick discussed in the book? Who wrote this novel?

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

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

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