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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Section 3 – 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did King Charles II marry Catherine of Graganza?
(a) 1701.
(b) 1661.
(c) 1692.
(d) 1673.

2. The author asserts in Part III, Section 3, "Sincerity has nothing to do with rationing water during a drought, as in today's California: this is not a measure that can be left to the individual conscience. To think in those terms is to accept" what (133)?
(a) "Neo-conservative premises."
(b) "Collective responsibility."
(c) "Neo-liberal premises."
(d) "Personal responsibility."

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

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

5. What shoreside town of the Nicobar Islands does the author describe having been reduced to its foundations after the tsunami in Part 1, Section 9?
(a) Rangat.
(b) Tamaloo.
(c) Arong.
(d) Malacca.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the author describe marching in a massive antiwar demonstration in New York in Part III, Section 2?

2. To what does the author attribute the tendency for the proximity to water being a status symbol in Part 1, Section 9?

3. When was The Circle of Reason published?

4. Who wrote the novel Flight Behavior?

5. Who wrote Moby Dick?

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