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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Sections 1 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people were injured by the cyclone that the author encountered while in Delhi?
(a) 500.
(b) 700.
(c) 800.
(d) 600.

2. What literary theorist said "fillers function very much like the good manners so important in [Jane] Austen" (17)?
(a) Franco Moretti.
(b) Alfred Wegener.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

3. When does the author describe a descending hailstorm in north Delhi in the beginning of Part 1, Section 5?
(a) June 12, 1975.
(b) March 17, 1978.
(c) March 12, 1982.
(d) September 5, 2018.

4. When did the author write the note: "I do believe it to be true that the land here is demonstrably alive; that it does not exist solely, or even incidentally, as a stage for the enactment of human history; that it is [itself] a protagonist" (6)?
(a) September 2000.
(b) March 1999.
(c) May 2002.
(d) June 2003.

5. The author states in Part 1, Section 2, "Recognition is famously a passage from" what to what (4)?
(a) "Blindness to hope."
(b) "Despair to hope."
(c) "Injustice to justice."
(d) "Ignorance to knowledge."

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. What much-admired historical novel by Paul Kingsnorth is referenced in Part 1, Section 3?

3. When did Hurricane Catarina stike the coast of Brazil?

4. Who wrote, "Climate change is inherently uncanny: Weather conditions, and the high-carbon lifestyles that are changing them, are extremely familiar and yet have now been given a new menace and uncertainty" (30)?

5. Who is describd as the protagonist in Bon Bibir Johuranama?

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