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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Treaty of Nanking signed on the Cornwallis?
(a) 1842.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1815.

2. How many tons of dust did Mount Tambora emit when it erupted?
(a) 1.7 million.
(b) 0.5 million.
(c) 4 million.
(d) 2.2 million.

3. In the First Opium War, armored steamships led by one named what, played a decisive role?
(a) The Empire.
(b) The Cloud.
(c) The Pegasus.
(d) The Nemesis.

4. The author's novel The Glass Palace touches upon a place in Burma where oil had bubbled up to the surface. What is the name of the place?
(a) Yenangyaung.
(b) Sythet.
(c) Chattogram.
(d) Dhaka.

5. What word from the book refers to the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history, as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time?
(a) Inundation.
(b) Zeitgeist.
(c) Sythet.
(d) Corrolation.

6. When did Mount Tambora erupt, creating the greatest volcanic eruption in recorded history?
(a) April 5, 1892.
(b) April 5, 1802.
(c) April 5, 1846.
(d) April 5, 1815.

7. What anthropologist wrote How Forests Think?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Franco Moretti.
(c) Eduardo Kohn.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

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

9. What author did Lionel Trilling famously dismiss as one who thought "like a social function, not a novelist" (79-80)?
(a) John Steinbeck.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Franco Moretti.

10. Where is Mrauk-U located?
(a) Thailand.
(b) Bangladesh.
(c) Burma.
(d) Sri Lanka.

11. 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)?
(a) Eduardo Kohn.
(b) Bill McKibben.
(c) Roger Shattuck.
(d) Arudhati Roy.

12. The author states in the opening of Part 1, Section 16, "To ask how science fiction came to be demarcated from the literary mainstream is to summon another question" (68). What is the question that he poses?
(a) "What is in the nature of modernity that has led to this separation?"
(b) "Who makes the decisions of literary form?"
(c) "Who are the writers of this genre?"
(d) "What is the meaning of science fiction and what is its place in society?"

13. Who wrote Paul et Virginie?
(a) Bernadin de Saint-Pierre.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Ernest Gellner.

14. Who was Lord Byron accompanied by when he moved to Geneva?
(a) Dr. John Polidori.
(b) Alfred Wegener.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) John Milton.

15. Who wrote the novel Flight Behavior?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Ernest Gellner.
(d) Barbara Kingsolver.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote of coal mines, "the militancy that formed in these workplaces was typically an effort to defend this autonomy" (74)?

2. When does the author describe marching in a massive antiwar demonstration in New York in Part III, Section 2?

3. 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)?

4. Where is Mount Tambora in relation to Bali?

5. Who wrote Frankenstein?

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