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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the author of The Malay Archipleago?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Alfred Russell Wallace.
(c) Ernest Gellner.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

2. 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)?
(a) Bruno Latour.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Ernest Gellner.
(d) Ian Hacking.

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

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

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

6. Who is noted as having pointed out that the period of the Great Accelleration is precisely "the period of great decolonization in countries that had been dominated by European imperial powers" (109)?
(a) Eduardo Kohn.
(b) Bill McKibben.
(c) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(d) Arudhati Roy.

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

8. 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) "Who makes the decisions of literary form?"
(b) "Who are the writers of this genre?"
(c) "What is in the nature of modernity that has led to this separation?"
(d) "What is the meaning of science fiction and what is its place in society?"

9. Who wrote the novel Flight Behavior?
(a) Barbara Kingsolver.
(b) Ernest Gellner.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Ian Hacking.

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

11. Who wrote, "Twentieth-century art has tended to search itself rather than exterior reality for beauty of meaning or truth, a condition that entails a new relationship between the work of art, the world, the spectator, and the artist" (119)?
(a) Eduardo Kohn.
(b) Arudhati Roy.
(c) Bill McKibben.
(d) Roger Shattuck.

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

13. The story The Vampyre was based on what vampyric aristocrat?
(a) John Milton.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Thomas Burnet.
(d) August Darvell.

14. 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) $75 billion.
(b) $25 billion.
(c) $65 billion.
(d) $45 billion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the sonnet "The World Is Too Much With Us"?

2. What is the nearest town of any size to Mrauk-U?

3. When did Robert Fulton launch the first commercial steamboat on the Hudson River?

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

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

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