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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Standard Oil.
(c) Esso.
(d) Questerre Energy.

2. About how long ago did China go through a "medieval economic revolution," according to the author in Part II, Section 5 (96)?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 1,000.

3. When was the manuel Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan published?
(a) The late 19th century.
(b) The late 17th century.
(c) The late 20th century.
(d) The late 18th century.

4. What author did Lionel Trilling famously dismiss as one who thought "like a social function, not a novelist" (79-80)?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) John Steinbeck.
(c) Franco Moretti.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

5. Who wrote Cities of Salt?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Abdul Rahman Munif.
(c) Franco Moretti.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

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

7. How many tons of dust did Mount Tambora emit when it erupted?
(a) 1.7 million.
(b) 0.5 million.
(c) 2.2 million.
(d) 4 million.

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. Who is noted as having pointed out that the period of the Great Accelleration is precisely "the period of great decolonization in countries that had been dominated by European imperial powers" (109)?
(a) Arudhati Roy.
(b) Bill McKibben.
(c) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(d) Eduardo Kohn.

13. When did Rabindranath Tagore win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1925.

14. What is the nearest town of any size to Mrauk-U?
(a) Sythet.
(b) Cox's Bazar.
(c) Sittwe.
(d) Chattogram.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What French traveler translated the works of Descartes into Persian during his travels in Asia?

2. Who was Lord Byron accompanied by when he moved to Geneva?

3. Who wrote Frankenstein?

4. When did Mount Tambora erupt, creating the greatest volcanic eruption in recorded history?

5. Who organized the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek?

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