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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 geologist wrote, "Money flows toward short term gain and toward the over-exploitation of unregulated common resources" (110)?
(a) David Archer.
(b) Eduardo Kohn.
(c) Arudhati Roy.
(d) Bill McKibben.

2. How many people were injured by the cyclone that the author encountered while in Delhi?
(a) 600.
(b) 800.
(c) 500.
(d) 700.

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

4. 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) George Marshall.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) John Milton.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

5. What is the title of Part I of the book?
(a) "Climate."
(b) "Politics."
(c) "Stories."
(d) "History."

Short Answer Questions

1. Along what river did the author's parents live in their homeland?

2. When was the manuel Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan published?

3. Who wrote An Attempt to Develop the Law of Storms in 1828?

4. When did the great earthquake hit the Italian town of L'Aquila, according to the author in Part 1, Section 7?

5. The word "moral" comes from a Latin root signifying what?

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