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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. The author concludes Part 1, Section 14 with the following: "So, if for a moment, we were to take seriously the premise that I started with--that the Anthropocene has forced us to recognize that there are other, fully aware eyes looking over our shoulders--the the first question to present itself is this" (66). What is the question he poses next?
(a) "What is the nonhuman being looking over us?"
(b) "What is our place within Nature?"
(c) "What is our place in this society?"
(d) "What is the place for the nonhuman in the modern novel?"

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

3. Who "argues that one of the original impulses of modernity is the project of 'partitioning,' or deepening the imaginary gulf between Nature and Culture" (68)?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Ernest Gellner.
(c) Bruno Latour.
(d) Ian Hacking.

4. When does the author describe marching in a massive antiwar demonstration in New York in Part III, Section 2?
(a) February 15, 2003.
(b) May 4, 2001.
(c) September 6, 2005.
(d) June 4, 2005.

5. What neighborhoods of Long Island does the author describe looking out of on a flight into J.F.K. and thinking they were sure to be swamped in a storm surge in Part 1, Section 9?
(a) Astoria and Williamsburg.
(b) Hicksville and North Fork.
(c) Bellerose Terrace and Long Island City.
(d) Far Rockaway and Long Beach.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was The Circle of Reason published?

2. Where was the author's first stop on his article about the effects of the tsunami on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Part 1, Section 9?

3. When did Giovanni da Verrazzano land on Manhattan?

4. The author states in Part 1, Section 10 that the city of Mumbai's health infrastructure was intended to cater to a population what times its size?

5. When did Cyclone Storm Chapala hit the shores of Yemen?

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