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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Section 5 - Part III, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Dutch build Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island?
(a) 1682.
(b) 1616.
(c) 1625.
(d) 1699.

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

3. Who is the primatologist that insisted on "the unity of all elements on the planet earth--living and non-living" (64)?
(a) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(b) Imanishi Kinji.
(c) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

4. 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) $75 billion.
(b) $25 billion.
(c) $45 billion.
(d) $65 billion.

5. What word from Part II, Section 8 means ruling or dominant in a political or social context?
(a) Admonic.
(b) Hegemonic.
(c) Articulate.
(d) Esoteric.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did King Charles II marry Catherine of Graganza?

2. What is described by the author in Part 1, Section 10 as one of Mumbai's most famous iconic street with sea-facing hotels famous for sunset views?

3. What does the Matla River translate to in English?

4. What anthropologist wrote How Forests Think?

5. What does "Weltliteratur" translate to in English?

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