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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was Frankenstein published?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1859.

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

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

5. In what novel by the author does he describe a character experiencing the crossing of the Enterprise?
(a) The Hungry Tide.
(b) The Shadow Lines.
(c) Sea of Poppies.
(d) Flood of Fire.

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

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

8. 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) $45 billion.
(d) $75 billion.

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

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

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

12. What word from the book refers to the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history, as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time?
(a) Sythet.
(b) Zeitgeist.
(c) Inundation.
(d) Corrolation.

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

14. 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) Questerre Energy.
(b) Burmah-Shell.
(c) Standard Oil.
(d) Esso.

15. Who wrote The Retreat of the Elephants?
(a) Arudhati Roy.
(b) Thomas Burnet.
(c) Bill McKibben.
(d) Mark Elvin.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does "Weltliteratur" translate to in English?

4. Where is Mrauk-U located?

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

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