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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 Giovanni da Verrazzano land on Manhattan?
(a) 1502.
(b) 1602.
(c) 1559.
(d) 1524.

2. According to the author in Part III, Section 6, David Archer estimates that to reach a genuinely fair solution to the problem of emissions, it would require cuts in the developed world by about what percentage?
(a) 80%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 70%.
(d) 60%.

3. When did the great earthquake hit the Italian town of L'Aquila, according to the author in Part 1, Section 7?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2005.
(c) 2012.
(d) 2016.

4. Who defines the "politics of the armed lifeboat" as "preparations for open-ended counter-insurgency, militarized borders, [and] aggressive anti-immigration policing" (143)?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Christian Parenti.
(c) Timothy Mitchell.
(d) John Maynard Keynes.

5. When was the Treaty of Nanking signed on the Cornwallis?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1849.
(d) 1815.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Surely Descartes never saw an ape" (64)?

2. What prominent historian stated that probability is a "manner of conceiving the world constituted without our being aware of it" (16)?

3. What movie does the author reference in Part 1, Section 1 as an illustration of the inanimate being revealed to be animate?

4. When was Pope Francis's encyclical letter Laudato Si published?

5. Between 2006 and 2009, the U.S. military's infestments in the sectors of biofuels, microgrids, electric vehicles, etc. rose by how much?

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