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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 seminal essay "The Climate of HIstory"?
(a) Arudhati Roy.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

2. What does the Matla River translate to in English?
(a) Slow River.
(b) Rushing River.
(c) Loving River.
(d) Crazed River.

3. Who wrote the novel Flight Behavior?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Barbara Kingsolver.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Ernest Gellner.

4. The author states in Part II, Section 2, "In China, which feeds more than 20 percent of the world's population off 7 percent of the world's arable land, desertification is already causing direct annual losses of" how much (89)?
(a) $65 billion.
(b) $25 billion.
(c) $45 billion.
(d) $75 billion.

5. Who wrote The Retreat of the Elephants?
(a) Mark Elvin.
(b) Bill McKibben.
(c) Arudhati Roy.
(d) Thomas Burnet.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek organized?

2. What word from the book refers to the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history, as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time?

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

4. Who was the nineteenth-century expert on Mumbai that the author turned to for assistance in finding out about the 1882 Bombay cyclone?

5. What anthropologist wrote How Forests Think?

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