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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. How many people were killed when a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in the Congo in 1988?
(a) 500.
(b) 1,700.
(c) 1,200.
(d) 900.

2. Who wrote the novel Flight Behavior?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Barbara Kingsolver.
(d) Ernest Gellner.

3. What is the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird?
(a) Memphis, Tennessee.
(b) Birmingham, Alabama.
(c) Maycomb, Alabama.
(d) Augusta, Georgia.

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

5. When did Hurricane Sandy hit New York?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2005.
(c) 2012.
(d) 2016.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the author describe a descending hailstorm in north Delhi in the beginning of Part 1, Section 5?

2. What is one of India's most important scientific bodies that is located at the southernmost tip of Mumbai?

3. 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)?

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

5. What does the folk epic of the Sundurbans, Bon Bibir Johuranama, translate to in English?

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