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

3. 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) Yenangyaung.
(b) Sythet.
(c) Chattogram.
(d) Dhaka.

4. Who wrote the sonnet "The World Is Too Much With Us"?
(a) William Wordsworth.
(b) Ernest Gellner.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

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

6. 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) "Who are the writers of this genre?"
(d) "What is in the nature of modernity that has led to this separation?"

7. Where is Mrauk-U located?
(a) Thailand.
(b) Burma.
(c) Bangladesh.
(d) Sri Lanka.

8. At whose behest were a number of wildlife sanctuaries established in the Burmese kingdom from the 1850s onward?
(a) King Mindon's.
(b) King Amah's.
(c) King Akbar's.
(d) King Ashoka's.

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

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

11. In the First Opium War, armored steamships led by one named what, played a decisive role?
(a) The Pegasus.
(b) The Nemesis.
(c) The Cloud.
(d) The Empire.

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

13. When does the author describe marching in a massive antiwar demonstration in New York in Part III, Section 2?
(a) June 4, 2005.
(b) September 6, 2005.
(c) February 15, 2003.
(d) May 4, 2001.

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

15. When did U. Thant serve as the secretary-general of the United Nations?
(a) 1971-1979.
(b) 1945-1959.
(c) 1975-1982.
(d) 1962-1971.

Short Answer Questions

1. Near what town was the site of the first successful drilling at Oil Well Creek located?

2. 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)?

3. What geologist wrote, "Money flows toward short term gain and toward the over-exploitation of unregulated common resources" (110)?

4. The author states in Part II, Section 1, "If Bruno Latour is right, then to be modern is to envision time as" what (123)?

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

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