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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Sections 9 -14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) "What is our place in this society?"
(b) "What is our place within Nature?"
(c) "What is the nonhuman being looking over us?"
(d) "What is the place for the nonhuman in the modern novel?"

2. Where was the author with his wife when Hurricane Sandy hit New York?
(a) Goa.
(b) Bali.
(c) Iran.
(d) Turkey.

3. When did Hurricane Catarina stike the coast of Brazil?
(a) 2016.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2012.
(d) 2009.

4. What nuclear facility is located near Mumbai's urban limits?
(a) The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, Tamil Nadu.
(b) The Tarapur Nuclear Reactor, Maharashtra.
(c) The Rajasthan Atomic Power Project.
(d) The Bhabba Atomic Research Centre at Trombay.

5. The author states in Part 1, Section 4 that "the climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of" what (9)?
(a) "The arts."
(b) "Power."
(c) "The imagination."
(d) "Politics."

Short Answer Questions

1. What neighborhoods of Long Island does the author describe looking out of on a flight into J.F.K. and thinking they were sure to be swamped in a storm surge in Part 1, Section 9?

2. What word used in the text refers to a proposed geological epoch dating from the commencent of significant human impact on the Earth's geology and ecosystems?

3. Who was the nineteenth-century expert on Mumbai that the author turned to for assistance in finding out about the 1882 Bombay cyclone?

4. The death toll of the 1882 Bombay cyclone was said to be upward of what number, according to the initial articles examined by the author in Part 1, Section 10?

5. 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)?

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