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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When did Mahatma Gandhi write "God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West" (111)?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1902.

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

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

7. 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)?
(a) $65 billion.
(b) $25 billion.
(c) $75 billion.
(d) $45 billion.

8. Who wrote the novel War and Peace?
(a) Franco Moretti.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

9. When did the Kosi River disaster in Bihar occur?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2010.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2008.

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

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

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

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

14. What John Sayles's film is praised by the author in Part I, Section 17?
(a) Passion Fish.
(b) The Brother from Another Planet.
(c) Lone Star.
(d) Matewan.

15. 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) Ernest Gellner.
(b) Margaret Atwood.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Paul et Virginie?

2. Who was the author of The Malay Archipleago?

3. What word from Part II, Section 8 means ruling or dominant in a political or social context?

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?

5. Near what town was the site of the first successful drilling at Oil Well Creek located?

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