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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. What giant leap of nature likely led to the extinction of the dinosaurs?
(a) The Chicxulub asteroid.
(b) The Aglale asteroid.
(c) The Bennu asteroid.
(d) The Apophis asteroid.

2. Who announced in 1964, "The humanist intellectual is, essentially, an expert on the written world" (84)?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Franco Moretti.
(c) Ernest Gellner.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

3. Where was the author with his wife when Hurricane Sandy hit New York?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Iran.
(c) Bali.
(d) Goa.

4. When was Frankenstein published?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1859.

5. Where is Adam Sobel a professor of atmospheric science?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Howard University.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) Princeton University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Paradise Lost?

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

3. Where is M. V. Ramana an associate of the Program on Science and Global Security?

4. 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)?

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

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