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

2. The author states in Part II, Section 1, "If Bruno Latour is right, then to be modern is to envision time as" what (123)?
(a) "Functioning."
(b) "Constant."
(c) "Irreversable."
(d) "Reversable."

3. Who is quoted in Part III, Section 3 for having said, "'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger" (134)?
(a) John Maynard Keynes.
(b) David Hume.
(c) Eduardo Kohn.
(d) Christian Parenti.

4. Who presented the central tenet of the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment, as noted by the author in Part III, Section 3?
(a) David Hume.
(b) Eduardo Kohn.
(c) Christian Parenti.
(d) John Maynard Keynes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who announced in 1964, "The humanist intellectual is, essentially, an expert on the written world" (84)?

2. Who testified to the Senate in 2013, saying that "extreme weather events (floods, droughts, heat waves) will increasingly disrupt food and energy markets, exacerbating state weakness, forcing human migrations, and triggering riots, civil disobedience, and vandalism" (140)?

3. When did Giovanni da Verrazzano land on Manhattan?

4. In 1991, a cyclone in Bangladesh resulted in 138,000 people dead. What percentage of them were women?

5. The Bengal Delta is formed by the confluence of what rivers?

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