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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first steam-powered vessel to operate in India was a dredger on what river?
(a) The Hooghly River.
(b) The Feni River.
(c) The Meghna River.
(d) The Ganges River.

2. In what novel by the author does he describe a character experiencing the crossing of the Enterprise?
(a) The Hungry Tide.
(b) Flood of Fire.
(c) The Shadow Lines.
(d) Sea of Poppies.

3. Who wrote Moby Dick?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Ernest Gellner.
(d) Herman Melville.

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

5. Who wrote The Retreat of the Elephants?
(a) Bill McKibben.
(b) Thomas Burnet.
(c) Arudhati Roy.
(d) Mark Elvin.

6. Who was the author of The Malay Archipleago?
(a) Ernest Gellner.
(b) Alfred Russell Wallace.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Ian Hacking.

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

8. When was Frankenstein published?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1802.

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

10. The author asserts in Part II, Section 8, "Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon" what (108)?
(a) "Nature."
(b) "Stress and anxiety."
(c) "Fear and sorrow."
(d) "Admixture and interbreeding."

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

12. When was The Circle of Reason published?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1995.
(d) 2002.

13. When did U. Thant serve as the secretary-general of the United Nations?
(a) 1975-1982.
(b) 1971-1979.
(c) 1962-1971.
(d) 1945-1959.

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

15. What is the title and focus of Part II?
(a) "Stories."
(b) "History."
(c) "Politics."
(d) "The Arts."

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who wrote Cities of Salt?

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?

4. Where is Mrauk-U located?

5. Who wrote The Circle of Reason?

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