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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Sections 1 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote, more than a quarter of a century ago, "We live in a post-natural world" (33)?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Bill McKibben.
(d) George Marshall.

2. Who wrote, "Climate change is inherently uncanny: Weather conditions, and the high-carbon lifestyles that are changing them, are extremely familiar and yet have now been given a new menace and uncertainty" (30)?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) John Milton.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) George Marshall.

3. Where did the author's forebearers resettle after the flooding of their first village?
(a) Pataukhali.
(b) Sythet.
(c) Dhaka.
(d) Bihar.

4. When was the movie made that is referenced in Part 1, Section 1?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1980.

5. What movie does the author reference in Part 1, Section 1 as an illustration of the inanimate being revealed to be animate?
(a) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
(b) Mummy.
(c) Raiders of the Lost Ark.
(d) The Empire Strikes Back.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the seminal essay "The Climate of HIstory"?

2. How many people were killed when a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in the Congo in 1988?

3. Along what river did the author's ancestors settle after their original village was flooded?

4. When does the author describe a descending hailstorm in north Delhi in the beginning of Part 1, Section 5?

5. When did the great river that bordered the author's parents' homeland suddenly change course, drowning the village?

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