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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. What word used in the text refers to a proposed geological epoch dating from the commencent of significant human impact on the Earth's geology and ecosystems?
(a) Holocene.
(b) Mesozoic.
(c) Anthropocene.
(d) Furongian Epoch.

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

3. In what century were Mumbai, Chennai, New York, and Charleston founded?
(a) The 16th century.
(b) The 18th century.
(c) The 16th century.
(d) The 17th century.

4. What organization did Paul Kingsnorth create as "a network of writers, artists, and thinkers who have stopped believing the stories our civilization tells itself" (8)?
(a) The White Elephant Project.
(b) The Dark Mountain Project.
(c) The Blue Ridge Project.
(d) The Green Tiger Project.

5. Who wrote of coal mines, "the militancy that formed in these workplaces was typically an effort to defend this autonomy" (74)?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Timothy Mitchell.
(c) Franco Moretti.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Sacred Theory of the Earth (1690)?

2. Who wrote The Retreat of the Elephants?

3. What does "Weltliteratur" translate to in English?

4. When did the site of today's Mumbai first come under European rule when it was ceded to the Portuguese by the ruler of Gujarat?

5. 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)?

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