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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 Retreat of the Elephants?
(a) Arudhati Roy.
(b) Mark Elvin.
(c) Thomas Burnet.
(d) Bill McKibben.
2. When was the manuel Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan published?
(a) The late 19th century.
(b) The late 17th century.
(c) The late 20th century.
(d) The late 18th century.
3. Who wrote the novel War and Peace?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Franco Moretti.
(d) Ian Hacking.
4. Who wrote of coal mines, "the militancy that formed in these workplaces was typically an effort to defend this autonomy" (74)?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Franco Moretti.
(c) Timothy Mitchell.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.
5. In what novel by the author does he describe a character experiencing the crossing of the Enterprise?
(a) The Hungry Tide.
(b) The Shadow Lines.
(c) Flood of Fire.
(d) Sea of Poppies.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did the Enterprise reach Calcutta on its crossing from Falmouth?
2. Where is Mrauk-U located?
3. What is the nearest town of any size to Mrauk-U?
4. When was the Treaty of Nanking signed on the Cornwallis?
5. 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)?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe the vessel called the Enterprise?
2. How does the author compare the novels Rapture and Flight Behavior in the book?
3. Who was Mahatma Gandhi and why does the author discuss him in Part II, Section 9?
4. Who wrote The Glass Palace and what is it about?
5. What determined the shape of the global carbon economy, according to the author in Part II, Section 8?
6. What was the first steam-powered vessel to operate in India and how is it described?
7. What does the author write of the universalist premise of industrial civilization?
8. How does the author describe the motivations for the push for oil consumption over coal in Part I, Section 17?
9. Why is Mary Shelley discussed in Part I, Section 15?
10. Who wrote the sonnet "The World is Too Much With Us" and why does the author discuss it in the book?
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