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

2. Who wrote Paul et Virginie?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Ernest Gellner.
(c) Bernadin de Saint-Pierre.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

3. Who wrote the sonnet "The World Is Too Much With Us"?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) William Wordsworth.
(d) Ernest Gellner.

4. Who wrote Moby Dick?
(a) Ernest Gellner.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Herman Melville.
(d) Ian Hacking.

5. What John Sayles's film is praised by the author in Part I, Section 17?
(a) The Brother from Another Planet.
(b) Passion Fish.
(c) Lone Star.
(d) Matewan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Sacred Theory of the Earth (1690)?

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

3. Who wrote Germinal?

4. According to the author in Part III, Section 7, analysts calculated that in 2014, the average Indian accounted for about what percent of the average American's coal consumption?

5. When did the site of today's Mumbai first come under European rule when it was ceded to the Portuguese by the ruler of Gujarat?

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