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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Section 15 - Part II, Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Germinal?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Emile Zola.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Ernest Gellner.

2. What is the average population of the Greater Mumbai area today?
(a) 10 million.
(b) 15 million.
(c) 20 million.
(d) 30 million.

3. 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) $25 billion.
(b) $65 billion.
(c) $75 billion.
(d) $45 billion.

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

5. Who wrote Frankenstein?
(a) Ernest Gellner.
(b) Mary Shelley.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Ian Hacking.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what night did the author read about a cataclysmic tsunami set off by a massive undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean, according to his narrative in Part 1, Section 9?

2. What organization did Paul Kingsnorth create as "a network of writers, artists, and thinkers who have stopped believing the stories our civilization tells itself" (8)?

3. The novel The Circle of Reason involves the discovery of oil in a fictional emirate called what?

4. The author states in the opening of Part 1, Section 16, "To ask how science fiction came to be demarcated from the literary mainstream is to summon another question" (68). What is the question that he poses?

5. The author states in Part 1, Section 2, "Recognition is famously a passage from" what to what (4)?

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