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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. The author states in Part 1, Section 2, "Recognition is famously a passage from" what to what (4)?
(a) "Blindness to hope."
(b) "Injustice to justice."
(c) "Ignorance to knowledge."
(d) "Despair to hope."

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

3. Who is described in Part 1, Section 3 as "one of the finest prose stylists of our time, she is passionate and deeply informed about climate change. Yet all her writings on these subjects are in various forms of nonfiction" (8)?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(c) Arudhati Roy.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

4. What storm was generated in the Arabian Sea in 2007, noted as its strongest storm ever?
(a) Cyclone Amphan.
(b) Cyclone Vayu.
(c) Cyclone Odisha.
(d) Cyclone Gonu.

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

Short Answer 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)?

2. What is described by the author in Part 1, Section 10 as one of Mumbai's most famous iconic street with sea-facing hotels famous for sunset views?

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

4. Who is described in Part 1, Section 6 as "a nineteenth-century Bengali writer and critic who self-consciously adopted the project of carving out fo a space in which realist European-style fiction could be written in the vernacular languages of India" (17)?

5. The death toll of the 1882 Bombay cyclone was said to be upward of what number, according to the initial articles examined by the author in Part 1, Section 10?

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