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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. What is the title of Part I of the book?
(a) "Climate."
(b) "Stories."
(c) "History."
(d) "Politics."

2. How many people were killed when a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in the Congo in 1988?
(a) 1,700.
(b) 1,200.
(c) 900.
(d) 500.

3. When did Cyclone Storm Chapala hit the shores of Yemen?
(a) June 4, 2011.
(b) May 6, 2017.
(c) November 3, 2015.
(d) September 6, 2014.

4. 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) "Constant."
(b) "Irreversable."
(c) "Reversable."
(d) "Functioning."

5. Between 1998 and 2001, three cyclones crashed into the Indian subcontinent to the north of Mumbai. Approximately how many people were killed in these events?
(a) 6,000.
(b) 17,000.
(c) 12,000.
(d) 25,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the former deputy commander of U.S. European Command that said, "There's a problem there and the military is going to be a part of the solution" (138)?

2. Who is described in Part 1, Section 3 as "one of the finest prose stylists of our time, she is passionate and deeply informed about climate change. Yet all her writings on these subjects are in various forms of nonfiction" (8)?

3. The author's novel The Glass Palace touches upon a place in Burma where oil had bubbled up to the surface. What is the name of the place?

4. Who was the nineteenth-century expert on Mumbai that the author turned to for assistance in finding out about the 1882 Bombay cyclone?

5. The author states in the opening of Part 1, Section 16, "To ask how science fiction came to be demarcated from the literary mainstream is to summon another question" (68). What is the question that he poses?

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