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

2. When was The Hungry Tide published?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2006.
(d) 2004.

3. Who is describd as the protagonist in Bon Bibir Johuranama?
(a) Narayan.
(b) Saraswati.
(c) Dokkhin Rai.
(d) Dukhey.

4. Who was the nineteenth-century expert on Mumbai that the author turned to for assistance in finding out about the 1882 Bombay cyclone?
(a) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(b) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Murali Ranganathan.

5. To what is Laudato Si compared in Part III, Section 8?
(a) The 12th Amendment.
(b) The Paris Agreement.
(c) The U.S. Constitution.
(d) The 23rd Amendment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the author doing as a part-time job while earning his MA at Delhi University?

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?

3. 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?

4. When did Robert Fulton launch the first commercial steamboat on the Hudson River?

5. Where is Mrauk-U located?

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