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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. 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 Dark Mountain Project.
(b) The White Elephant Project.
(c) The Blue Ridge Project.
(d) The Green Tiger Project.

2. Who wrote "Surely Descartes never saw an ape" (64)?
(a) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(b) Linnaeus.
(c) Ovid.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

3. When did the Dutch build Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island?
(a) 1682.
(b) 1699.
(c) 1616.
(d) 1625.

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

5. According to the author in Part 1, Section 10, how many passengers does Mumbai's suburban railway network transport on weekdays?
(a) 3.4 million passengers.
(b) 7.5 million passengers.
(c) 1.9 million passengers.
(d) 6.6 million passengers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Madame Bovary?

2. What is the average population of the Greater Mumbai area today?

3. When was Mumbai's earliest recorded encounter with a powerful storm?

4. Who is the primatologist that insisted on "the unity of all elements on the planet earth--living and non-living" (64)?

5. From where in the Congo did a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in 1988?

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