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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 Flight Behavior?
(a) Ernest Gellner.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Barbara Kingsolver.

2. 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 our place within Nature?"
(b) "What is the nonhuman being looking over us?"
(c) "What is the place for the nonhuman in the modern novel?"
(d) "What is our place in this society?"

3. In the First Opium War, armored steamships led by one named what, played a decisive role?
(a) The Nemesis.
(b) The Pegasus.
(c) The Cloud.
(d) The Empire.

4. Who announced in 1964, "The humanist intellectual is, essentially, an expert on the written world" (84)?
(a) Franco Moretti.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Ernest Gellner.

5. When was Frankenstein published?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1795.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Matla River translate to in English?

2. When did the Dutch build Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island?

3. Who wrote, more than a quarter of a century ago, "We live in a post-natural world" (33)?

4. What is the name of the tiger demon featured in Bon Bibir Johuranama?

5. What does the folk epic of the Sundurbans, Bon Bibir Johuranama, translate to in English?

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