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

2. Who was Mary Godwin's stepsister with whom Lord Byron had a brief affair in England?
(a) Mary.
(b) Claire.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Emma.

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

4. What geologist wrote, "Money flows toward short term gain and toward the over-exploitation of unregulated common resources" (110)?
(a) Arudhati Roy.
(b) Bill McKibben.
(c) Eduardo Kohn.
(d) David Archer.

5. What is the title and central subject of Part III?
(a) "History."
(b) "Stories."
(c) "Politics."
(d) "Art."

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Robert Fulton launch the first commercial steamboat on the Hudson River?

2. When was the manuel Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan published?

3. When did the Enterprise depart Falmouth for Calcutta?

4. Who wrote Frankenstein?

5. Near what town was the site of the first successful drilling at Oil Well Creek located?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is "speculative fiction" defined?

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

5. How does Bruno Latour define modernity?

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

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

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

9. Who wrote the sonnet "The World is Too Much With Us" and why does the author discuss it in the book?

10. What was the Registry Act?

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