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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Section 15 - Part II, Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Germinal?
(a) Emile Zola.
(b) Ernest Gellner.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Ian Hacking.

2. What is the average population of the Greater Mumbai area today?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 30 million.
(d) 15 million.

3. Who is the author of Rapture?
(a) Ernest Gellner.
(b) Liz Jensen.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

4. 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 Blue Ridge Project.
(c) The White Elephant Project.
(d) The Green Tiger Project.

5. The 1971 Bhola Cyclone is thought to have killed how many people?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 300,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 150,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Part 1, Section 10 that the city of Mumbai's health infrastructure was intended to cater to a population what times its size?

2. Who wrote of the genres of science fiction and speculative fiction that they "all draw from the same deep well: those imagined other worlds located somewhere apart from our everyday one..." (72)?

3. 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?

4. What John Sayles's film is praised by the author in Part I, Section 17?

5. What shoreside town of the Nicobar Islands does the author describe having been reduced to its foundations after the tsunami in Part 1, Section 9?

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