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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, "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)?
(a) John Milton.
(b) George Marshall.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

2. The author states in Part II, Section 1, "If Bruno Latour is right, then to be modern is to envision time as" what (123)?
(a) "Reversable."
(b) "Irreversable."
(c) "Functioning."
(d) "Constant."

3. The author asserts in Part II, Section 8, "Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon" what (108)?
(a) "Nature."
(b) "Admixture and interbreeding."
(c) "Fear and sorrow."
(d) "Stress and anxiety."

4. The 1971 Bhola Cyclone is thought to have killed how many people?
(a) 150,000.
(b) 300,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 100,000.

5. The author's novel The Glass Palace touches upon a place in Burma where oil had bubbled up to the surface. What is the name of the place?
(a) Yenangyaung.
(b) Dhaka.
(c) Chattogram.
(d) Sythet.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where in the Congo did a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in 1988?

2. Where is M. V. Ramana an associate of the Program on Science and Global Security?

3. Who was the originator of the theory of continental drift?

4. In what century were Mumbai, Chennai, New York, and Charleston founded?

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

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