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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did the Enterprise depart Falmouth for Calcutta?
(a) August 16, 1825.
(b) March 12, 1825.
(c) September 5, 1825.
(d) June 15, 1825.

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

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

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

6. When was the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek organized?
(a) August 28, 1859.
(b) June 12, 1845.
(c) March 14, 1902.
(d) June 4, 1825.

7. What anthropologist wrote How Forests Think?
(a) Franco Moretti.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Eduardo Kohn.

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) $25 billion.
(b) $75 billion.
(c) $65 billion.
(d) $45 billion.

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

10. 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.

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

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

13. What geologist wrote, "Money flows toward short term gain and toward the over-exploitation of unregulated common resources" (110)?
(a) David Archer.
(b) Arudhati Roy.
(c) Eduardo Kohn.
(d) Bill McKibben.

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

15. 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) Margaret Atwood.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Ernest Gellner.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Who "argues that one of the original impulses of modernity is the project of 'partitioning,' or deepening the imaginary gulf between Nature and Culture" (68)?

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

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