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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The novel The Circle of Reason involves the discovery of oil in a fictional emirate called what?
(a) Al-Ghazira.
(b) Al-Harrissa.
(c) Al-Bhrama.
(d) Al-Isthan.

2. The Bengal Delta is formed by the confluence of what rivers?
(a) The Muhuri and the Padma.
(b) The Ganges and the Brahmaputra.
(c) The Meghna and the Ganges.
(d) The Feni and the Ganges.

3. Where is Mount Tambora in relation to Bali?
(a) 400 kilometers east.
(b) 300 kilometers east.
(c) 200 kilometers east.
(d) 100 kilometers east.

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

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

6. When does the author describe marching in a massive antiwar demonstration in New York in Part III, Section 2?
(a) May 4, 2001.
(b) June 4, 2005.
(c) September 6, 2005.
(d) February 15, 2003.

7. Who is the author of Rapture?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Liz Jensen.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Ernest Gellner.

8. What French traveler translated the works of Descartes into Persian during his travels in Asia?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Francois Bernier.
(c) Alexandre de Bouchan.
(d) Pierre Zoiche.

9. Who announced in 1964, "The humanist intellectual is, essentially, an expert on the written world" (84)?
(a) Franco Moretti.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Ernest Gellner.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

10. The word "moral" comes from a Latin root signifying what?
(a) Omniscient.
(b) Godly.
(c) Good.
(d) Custom.

11. When did the British Parliament pass the Registry Act that passed tight restrictions on Indian ships and sailors?
(a) 1815.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1913.

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

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

14. Who wrote of the genres of science fiction and speculative fiction that they "all draw from the same deep well: those imagined other worlds located somewhere apart from our everyday one..." (72)?
(a) Margaret Atwood.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Ernest Gellner.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

15. Who wrote Germinal?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Emile Zola.
(c) Ernest Gellner.
(d) Ian Hacking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What geologist wrote, "Money flows toward short term gain and toward the over-exploitation of unregulated common resources" (110)?

2. Who wrote The Circle of Reason?

3. When did the Enterprise depart Falmouth for Calcutta?

4. Who wrote The Retreat of the Elephants?

5. When did the Enterprise reach Calcutta on its crossing from Falmouth?

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