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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Section 5 - Part III, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the novel Solaris?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) George Marshall.
(c) Bill McKibben.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

2. Who wrote the novel War and Peace?
(a) Franco Moretti.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

3. Who is noted as having pointed out that the period of the Great Accelleration is precisely "the period of great decolonization in countries that had been dominated by European imperial powers" (109)?
(a) Arudhati Roy.
(b) Bill McKibben.
(c) Eduardo Kohn.
(d) Dipesh Chakrabarty.

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

5. The first steam-powered vessel to operate in India was a dredger on what river?
(a) The Hooghly River.
(b) The Feni River.
(c) The Meghna River.
(d) The Ganges River.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were killed when a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in the Congo in 1988?

2. What literary theorist said "fillers function very much like the good manners so important in [Jane] Austen" (17)?

3. Who was Lord Byron accompanied by when he moved to Geneva?

4. Who was Mary Godwin's stepsister with whom Lord Byron had a brief affair in England?

5. Who wrote The Retreat of the Elephants?

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