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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Section 5 - Part III, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The death toll of the 1882 Bombay cyclone was said to be upward of what number, according to the initial articles examined by the author in Part 1, Section 10?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 150,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 200,000.

4. What term from Norse mythology meaning "great winter" is used in Part 1, Section 12?
(a) Intuwintre.
(b) Codowintre.
(c) Fimbulwinter.
(d) Ixbewinter.

5. Who wrote, asking of England, "And was Jerusalem builded here, / Among these dark Satanic mills?" (69)?
(a) Ernest Gellner.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) William Blake.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Mahatma Gandhi write "God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West" (111)?

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)?

3. 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?

4. The word "moral" comes from a Latin root signifying what?

5. Who wrote The Circle of Reason?

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