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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Section 3 – 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the former deputy commander of U.S. European Command that said, "There's a problem there and the military is going to be a part of the solution" (138)?
(a) General Bill McKibben.
(b) General Chuck Wald.
(c) General George Marshall.
(d) General Jay Gould.

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

3. After the British deposited Thibaw, Burma's major oil wells passed into British control and became the nucleus of a megacorporation that was known until the 1960s as what?
(a) Questerre Energy.
(b) Burmah-Shell.
(c) Standard Oil.
(d) Esso.

4. The story The Vampyre was based on what vampyric aristocrat?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) August Darvell.
(c) Thomas Burnet.
(d) John Milton.

5. Where was the author with his wife when Hurricane Sandy hit New York?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Iran.
(c) Bali.
(d) Goa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What French traveler translated the works of Descartes into Persian during his travels in Asia?

2. Approximately how many deaths were attributed to the 2010 heat wave in Russia?

3. When was the city of Port Canning inaugurated with a grand ceremony?

4. Who announced in 1964, "The humanist intellectual is, essentially, an expert on the written world" (84)?

5. What is the title of Part I of the book?

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