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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 The Circle of Reason?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Franco Moretti.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Amitav Ghosh.

2. 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?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 200,000.

3. When did Giovanni da Verrazzano land on Manhattan?
(a) 1559.
(b) 1602.
(c) 1524.
(d) 1502.

4. Who was the author of The Malay Archipleago?
(a) Alfred Russell Wallace.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Ernest Gellner.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

5. From where in the Congo did a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in 1988?
(a) Lake Nyos.
(b) Kaptai Lake.
(c) Boga Lake.
(d) Foy's Lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote of coal mines, "the militancy that formed in these workplaces was typically an effort to defend this autonomy" (74)?

2. 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?

3. Who wrote Moby Dick?

4. Where is the Owen fracture zone located?

5. Who wrote, asking of England, "And was Jerusalem builded here, / Among these dark Satanic mills?" (69)?

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