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

2. What literary theorist said "fillers function very much like the good manners so important in [Jane] Austen" (17)?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Alfred Wegener.
(c) Franco Moretti.
(d) Ian Hacking.

3. What is referred to in Part 1, Section 2 as the "great man-grove forest of the Bangal Delta" (5)?
(a) The Gulshans.
(b) The Dhanmondis.
(c) The Bandharas.
(d) The Sundarbans.

4. From where in the Congo did a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in 1988?
(a) Kaptai Lake.
(b) Boga Lake.
(c) Foy's Lake.
(d) Lake Nyos.

5. Who wrote the novel Solaris?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Bill McKibben.
(c) George Marshall.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What giant leap of nature likely led to the extinction of the dinosaurs?

2. When did Hurricane Sandy hit New York?

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

4. When was the movie made that is referenced in Part 1, Section 1?

5. What movie does the author reference in Part 1, Section 1 as an illustration of the inanimate being revealed to be animate?

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