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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Sections 9 -14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) George Marshall.
(c) John Milton.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

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

3. What was the author doing as a part-time job while earning his MA at Delhi University?
(a) He worked as a librarian.
(b) He worked as a tutor.
(c) He worked as a book editor.
(d) He worked as a journalist.

4. Who was the originator of the theory of continental drift?
(a) Thomas Burnet.
(b) Alfred Wegener.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

5. When did Hurricane Catarina stike the coast of Brazil?
(a) 2004.
(b) 2016.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2012.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was A River Called Titash published?

2. What word used in the text refers to a proposed geological epoch dating from the commencent of significant human impact on the Earth's geology and ecosystems?

3. Between 1998 and 2001, three cyclones crashed into the Indian subcontinent to the north of Mumbai. Approximately how many people were killed in these events?

4. When did the author write the note: "I do believe it to be true that the land here is demonstrably alive; that it does not exist solely, or even incidentally, as a stage for the enactment of human history; that it is [itself] a protagonist" (6)?

5. What neighborhoods of Long Island does the author describe looking out of on a flight into J.F.K. and thinking they were sure to be swamped in a storm surge in Part 1, Section 9?

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