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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Section 15 - Part II, Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the novel Solaris?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) George Marshall.
(d) Bill McKibben.

2. Who was Lord Byron accompanied by when he moved to Geneva?
(a) John Milton.
(b) Dr. John Polidori.
(c) Alfred Wegener.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

3. When was the movie made that is referenced in Part 1, Section 1?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1977.

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

5. When did the destinies of New York and Mumbai become linked to the British Empire, according to the author in Part 1, Section 10?
(a) The 1620s.
(b) The 1660s.
(c) The 1750s.
(d) The 1590s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the author with his wife when Hurricane Sandy hit New York?

2. Where is Mount Tambora in relation to Bali?

3. What literary theorist said "fillers function very much like the good manners so important in [Jane] Austen" (17)?

4. Where does the author describe experiencing a cyclone that flooded a pond behind his house in Part 1, Section 2?

5. What is referred to in Part 1, Section 2 as the "great man-grove forest of the Bangal Delta" (5)?

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