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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Part II, Section 8 means ruling or dominant in a political or social context?
(a) Hegemonic.
(b) Admonic.
(c) Esoteric.
(d) Articulate.

2. When did the Enterprise reach Calcutta on its crossing from Falmouth?
(a) March 12, 1825.
(b) August 16, 1825.
(c) September 5, 1825.
(d) December 7, 1825.

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

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

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

6. When did Robert Fulton launch the first commercial steamboat on the Hudson River?
(a) 1811.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1829.
(d) 1807.

7. When was The Circle of Reason published?
(a) 2002.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1986.

8. Who was Lord Byron accompanied by when he moved to Geneva?
(a) Alfred Wegener.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) Dr. John Polidori.
(d) John Milton.

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

10. 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) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Franco Moretti.

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

12. Who announced in 1964, "The humanist intellectual is, essentially, an expert on the written world" (84)?
(a) Ernest Gellner.
(b) Franco Moretti.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

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

14. The first steam-powered vessel to operate in India was a dredger on what river?
(a) The Meghna River.
(b) The Ganges River.
(c) The Feni River.
(d) The Hooghly River.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

3. Who wrote the novel Flight Behavior?

4. The novel The Circle of Reason involves the discovery of oil in a fictional emirate called what?

5. In 1991, a cyclone in Bangladesh resulted in 138,000 people dead. What percentage of them were women?

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