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

2. Along what river did the author's parents live in their homeland?
(a) The Ganges River.
(b) The Feni River.
(c) The Meghna River.
(d) The Padma River.

3. When did Hurricane Sandy hit New York?
(a) 2005.
(b) 2016.
(c) 2012.
(d) 2009.

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

5. Who wrote Sacred Theory of the Earth (1690)?
(a) Thomas Burnet.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Alfred Wegener.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle?

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

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

4. Who wrote Paradise Lost?

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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