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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. From where in the Congo did a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in 1988?
(a) Boga Lake.
(b) Kaptai Lake.
(c) Foy's Lake.
(d) Lake Nyos.

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?
(a) Anthropocene.
(b) Mesozoic.
(c) Holocene.
(d) Furongian Epoch.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Part I of the book?

2. How many people were killed when a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in the Congo in 1988?

3. 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)?

4. What was the author doing as a part-time job while earning his MA at Delhi University?

5. Who was the nineteenth-century expert on Mumbai that the author turned to for assistance in finding out about the 1882 Bombay cyclone?

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