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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 is noted as having pointed out that the period of the Great Accelleration is precisely "the period of great decolonization in countries that had been dominated by European imperial powers" (109)?
(a) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(b) Bill McKibben.
(c) Eduardo Kohn.
(d) Arudhati Roy.

2. When did U. Thant serve as the secretary-general of the United Nations?
(a) 1971-1979.
(b) 1975-1982.
(c) 1945-1959.
(d) 1962-1971.

3. Who wrote The Retreat of the Elephants?
(a) Arudhati Roy.
(b) Bill McKibben.
(c) Mark Elvin.
(d) Thomas Burnet.

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

5. When did Mahatma Gandhi write "God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West" (111)?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hurricane Catarina stike the coast of Brazil?

2. What is the name of the tiger demon featured in Bon Bibir Johuranama?

3. Who wrote the novel War and Peace?

4. When did the author write the note: "I do believe it to be true that the land here is demonstrably alive; that it does not exist solely, or even incidentally, as a stage for the enactment of human history; that it is [itself] a protagonist" (6)?

5. Where were the author's parents originally from?

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