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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Section 5 - Part III, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek organized?
(a) June 12, 1845.
(b) March 14, 1902.
(c) August 28, 1859.
(d) June 4, 1825.

3. Where is M. V. Ramana an associate of the Program on Science and Global Security?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Princeton University.

4. In 1991, a cyclone in Bangladesh resulted in 138,000 people dead. What percentage of them were women?
(a) 80%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 90%.
(d) 70%.

5. 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) Ian Hacking.
(c) Timothy Mitchell.
(d) Franco Moretti.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Kosi River disaster in Bihar occur?

2. When did Mahatma Gandhi write "God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West" (111)?

3. What was the first year that the Arabian Sea was known to have generated more storms than the Bay of Bengal?

4. Who organized the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek?

5. When did Giovanni da Verrazzano land on Manhattan?

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