1. When did the author write the note: "I do believe it to be true that the land here is demonstrably alive; that it does not exist solely, or even incidentally, as a stage for the enactment of human history; that it is [itself] a protagonist" (6)?
(a) June 2003.
(b) March 1999.
(c) September 2000.
(d) May 2002.

2. What does the Matla River translate to in English?
(a) Slow River.
(b) Loving River.
(c) Rushing River.
(d) Crazed River.

3. When was The Circle of Reason published?
(a) 1986.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1989.

4. Where were the author's parents originally from?
(a) Pakistan.
(b) Myanmar.
(c) Nepal.
(d) Bangladesh.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did a flood without precedent in Mumbai's recorded history descend on the city, dumping 94.4 cm. of rain in 14 hours on the northern suburbs?

2. What author did Lionel Trilling famously dismiss as one who thought "like a social function, not a novelist" (79-80)?

3. How long is the system of the Owen fracture zone?

4. Who wrote An Attempt to Develop the Law of Storms in 1828?

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

(see the answer key)

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