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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) $75 billion.
(c) $45 billion.
(d) $65 billion.

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

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

4. 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?
(a) Burmah-Shell.
(b) Esso.
(c) Questerre Energy.
(d) Standard Oil.

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

6. The 1971 Bhola Cyclone is thought to have killed how many people?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 300,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 150,000.

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Who was Mary Godwin's stepsister with whom Lord Byron had a brief affair in England?
(a) Mary.
(b) Claire.
(c) Emma.
(d) Sarah.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Bengal Delta is formed by the confluence of what rivers?

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

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

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

5. What anthropologist wrote How Forests Think?

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