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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. How long is the system of the Owen fracture zone?
(a) 200 kilometers.
(b) 800 kilometers.
(c) 500 kilometers.
(d) 1,000 kilometers.

2. Who wrote, more than a quarter of a century ago, "We live in a post-natural world" (33)?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) George Marshall.
(c) Bill McKibben.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

3. Where is the Owen fracture zone located?
(a) Off the coast of Jeddah.
(b) Off the coast of Oman.
(c) Off the coast of Somalia.
(d) Off the coast of Dubai.

4. In what century were Mumbai, Chennai, New York, and Charleston founded?
(a) The 16th century.
(b) The 16th century.
(c) The 17th century.
(d) The 18th century.

5. What earlier book by the author does he reference in Part 1, Section 2?
(a) The Hungry Tide.
(b) The Vast Desert.
(c) The Red Tide.
(d) The Glass House.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author concludes Part 1, Section 14 with the following: "So, if for a moment, we were to take seriously the premise that I started with--that the Anthropocene has forced us to recognize that there are other, fully aware eyes looking over our shoulders--the the first question to present itself is this" (66). What is the question he poses next?

2. Who wrote Sacred Theory of the Earth (1690)?

3. Who wrote the novel Solaris?

4. 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)?

5. How many were killed by the cyclone that the author describes encountering in Delhi in Part 1, Section 5?

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