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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Section 3 – 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the Owen fracture zone located?
(a) Off the coast of Somalia.
(b) Off the coast of Jeddah.
(c) Off the coast of Oman.
(d) Off the coast of Dubai.

2. Who is described in Part 1, Section 3 as "one of the finest prose stylists of our time, she is passionate and deeply informed about climate change. Yet all her writings on these subjects are in various forms of nonfiction" (8)?
(a) Arudhati Roy.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Dipesh Chakrabarty.

3. Who is the former chief of staff to Secretary of State Powell that said "The only department in ... Washington that is clearly and completely seized with the idea that climate change is real is the Dept. of Defense" (139)?
(a) Colonel Chuck Wald.
(b) Colonel George Marshall.
(c) Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson.
(d) Colonel Alfred Wegener.

4. What is the title and focus of Part II?
(a) "History."
(b) "The Arts."
(c) "Politics."
(d) "Stories."

5. When did U. Thant serve as the secretary-general of the United Nations?
(a) 1945-1959.
(b) 1962-1971.
(c) 1975-1982.
(d) 1971-1979.

Short Answer Questions

1. What movie does the author reference in Part 1, Section 1 as an illustration of the inanimate being revealed to be animate?

2. Who wrote the novel War and Peace?

3. Between 1998 and 2001, three cyclones crashed into the Indian subcontinent to the north of Mumbai. Approximately how many people were killed in these events?

4. Who "argues that one of the original impulses of modernity is the project of 'partitioning,' or deepening the imaginary gulf between Nature and Culture" (68)?

5. Who wrote Germinal?

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