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

2. When was the city of Port Canning inaugurated with a grand ceremony?
(a) 1864.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1826.
(d) 1854.

3. According to the author in Part 1, Section 10, how many passengers does Mumbai's suburban railway network transport on weekdays?
(a) 1.9 million passengers.
(b) 3.4 million passengers.
(c) 7.5 million passengers.
(d) 6.6 million passengers.

4. Who wrote Storm Surge?
(a) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(b) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(c) Adam Sobel.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

5. Who wrote, "Twentieth-century art has tended to search itself rather than exterior reality for beauty of meaning or truth, a condition that entails a new relationship between the work of art, the world, the spectator, and the artist" (119)?
(a) Arudhati Roy.
(b) Bill McKibben.
(c) Roger Shattuck.
(d) Eduardo Kohn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the author's first stop on his article about the effects of the tsunami on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Part 1, Section 9?

2. What word from Part II, Section 8 means ruling or dominant in a political or social context?

3. Who was Lord Byron accompanied by when he moved to Geneva?

4. About how long ago did China go through a "medieval economic revolution," according to the author in Part II, Section 5 (96)?

5. When was the Treaty of Nanking signed on the Cornwallis?

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