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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. According to the author in Part III, Section 7, analysts calculated that in 2014, the average Indian accounted for about what percent of the average American's coal consumption?
(a) 40%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 10%.

2. Who wrote Late Victorian Holocausts?
(a) Christian Parenti.
(b) Mike Davis.
(c) Timothy Mitchell.
(d) Ian Hacking.

3. The first steam-powered vessel to operate in India was a dredger on what river?
(a) The Feni River.
(b) The Meghna River.
(c) The Ganges River.
(d) The Hooghly River.

4. What is the name of the tiger demon featured in Bon Bibir Johuranama?
(a) Lakshmi.
(b) Dukhey.
(c) Saraswati.
(d) Dokkhin Rai.

5. Who wrote Madame Bovary?
(a) Stephen Jay Gould.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the novel War and Peace?

2. The author states in Part III, Section 7 that Western food production requires something in the range of how many fossil fuel calories for each food calorie?

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

4. What does "Weltliteratur" translate to in English?

5. The novel The Circle of Reason involves the discovery of oil in a fictional emirate called what?

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