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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Dhaka.
(b) Yenangyaung.
(c) Sythet.
(d) Chattogram.

2. 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) $25 billion.
(b) $65 billion.
(c) $75 billion.
(d) $45 billion.

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

4. 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.

5. Who organized the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek?
(a) Colonel George Marshall.
(b) Colonel Bill McKibben.
(c) Colonel Thomas Burnet.
(d) Colonel Edwin L. Drake.

6. Who wrote Frankenstein?
(a) Mary Shelley.
(b) Ernest Gellner.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

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

8. Who wrote of coal mines, "the militancy that formed in these workplaces was typically an effort to defend this autonomy" (74)?
(a) Franco Moretti.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Timothy Mitchell.
(d) Ian Hacking.

9. 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 the meaning of science fiction and what is its place in society?"
(b) "Who makes the decisions of literary form?"
(c) "What is in the nature of modernity that has led to this separation?"
(d) "Who are the writers of this genre?"

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

11. 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) "Fear and sorrow."
(b) "Nature."
(c) "Admixture and interbreeding."
(d) "Stress and anxiety."

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

13. What is the title and central subject of Part III?
(a) "Politics."
(b) "Art."
(c) "Stories."
(d) "History."

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

15. Near what town was the site of the first successful drilling at Oil Well Creek located?
(a) Hershey, Pennsylvania.
(b) Titusville, Pennsylvania.
(c) Princeton, New Jersey.
(d) Albany, New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the British Parliament pass the Registry Act that passed tight restrictions on Indian ships and sailors?

2. The word "moral" comes from a Latin root signifying what?

3. The first steam-powered vessel to operate in India was a dredger on what river?

4. When did U. Thant serve as the secretary-general of the United Nations?

5. The 1971 Bhola Cyclone is thought to have killed how many people?

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