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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 Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle?
(a) Alfred Wegener.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Stephen Jay Gould.

2. The author states in Part 1, Section 2, "Recognition is famously a passage from" what to what (4)?
(a) "Ignorance to knowledge."
(b) "Blindness to hope."
(c) "Injustice to justice."
(d) "Despair to hope."

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

4. When was Rajmohan's Wife written in English?
(a) The early 1840s.
(b) The late 1910s.
(c) The early 1920s.
(d) The early 1860s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What earlier book by the author does he reference in Part 1, Section 2?

2. Who is describd as the protagonist in Bon Bibir Johuranama?

3. What much-admired historical novel by Paul Kingsnorth is referenced in Part 1, Section 3?

4. Who wrote the novel Solaris?

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

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