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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. The author asserts in Part II, Section 8, "Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon" what (108)?
(a) "Admixture and interbreeding."
(b) "Fear and sorrow."
(c) "Nature."
(d) "Stress and anxiety."

2. What term from Norse mythology meaning "great winter" is used in Part 1, Section 12?
(a) Codowintre.
(b) Ixbewinter.
(c) Fimbulwinter.
(d) Intuwintre.

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

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

5. When did Rabindranath Tagore win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1842.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the manuel Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan published?

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

3. What word from Part II, Section 8 means ruling or dominant in a political or social context?

4. What was the first year that the Arabian Sea was known to have generated more storms than the Bay of Bengal?

5. Where did the author's forebearers resettle after the flooding of their first village?

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