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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. How many people were injured by the cyclone that the author encountered while in Delhi?
(a) 700.
(b) 600.
(c) 800.
(d) 500.

2. What organization did Paul Kingsnorth create as "a network of writers, artists, and thinkers who have stopped believing the stories our civilization tells itself" (8)?
(a) The Green Tiger Project.
(b) The Dark Mountain Project.
(c) The White Elephant Project.
(d) The Blue Ridge Project.

3. What prominent historian stated that probability is a "manner of conceiving the world constituted without our being aware of it" (16)?
(a) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Franco Moretti.
(d) Ian Hacking.

4. Who wrote Paradise Lost?
(a) Alfred Wegener.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) John Milton.

5. When did the great river that bordered the author's parents' homeland suddenly change course, drowning the village?
(a) The early-1840s.
(b) The mid-1860s.
(c) The mid-1850s.
(d) The late-1870s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Madame Bovary?

2. Where did the author's forebearers resettle after the flooding of their first village?

3. What literary theorist said "fillers function very much like the good manners so important in [Jane] Austen" (17)?

4. Who wrote, more than a quarter of a century ago, "We live in a post-natural world" (33)?

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

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