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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 shoreside town of the Nicobar Islands does the author describe having been reduced to its foundations after the tsunami in Part 1, Section 9?
(a) Arong.
(b) Tamaloo.
(c) Rangat.
(d) Malacca.

2. When was the movie made that is referenced in Part 1, Section 1?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1977.

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

4. 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)?
(a) Ernest Gellner.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Margaret Atwood.

5. According to the author in Part 1, Section 10, how many passengers does Mumbai's suburban railway network transport on weekdays?
(a) 1.9 million passengers.
(b) 7.5 million passengers.
(c) 6.6 million passengers.
(d) 3.4 million passengers.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where in the Congo did a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in 1988?

2. Who wrote The Circle of Reason?

3. Who was the author of The Malay Archipleago?

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

5. What movie does the author reference in Part 1, Section 1 as an illustration of the inanimate being revealed to be animate?

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