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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What word from the book refers to the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history, as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time?
(a) Sythet.
(b) Inundation.
(c) Zeitgeist.
(d) Corrolation.

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

5. When was the manuel Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan published?
(a) The late 20th century.
(b) The late 17th century.
(c) The late 18th century.
(d) The late 19th century.

6. Who organized the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek?
(a) Colonel George Marshall.
(b) Colonel Bill McKibben.
(c) Colonel Edwin L. Drake.
(d) Colonel Thomas Burnet.

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

8. Who wrote Germinal?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Emile Zola.
(c) Ernest Gellner.
(d) Ian Hacking.

9. Who was Mary Godwin's stepsister with whom Lord Byron had a brief affair in England?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Emma.
(c) Claire.
(d) Mary.

10. When did the British Parliament pass the Registry Act that passed tight restrictions on Indian ships and sailors?
(a) 1815.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1842.

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

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

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

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

15. What does "Weltliteratur" translate to in English?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Science fiction.
(c) Illustrated literature.
(d) World literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title and central subject of Part III?

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

3. Who wrote Cities of Salt?

4. In the First Opium War, armored steamships led by one named what, played a decisive role?

5. When did U. Thant serve as the secretary-general of the United Nations?

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