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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. What is the title and focus of Part II?
(a) "The Arts."
(b) "Stories."
(c) "History."
(d) "Politics."

2. Who wrote Paul et Virginie?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Bernadin de Saint-Pierre.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Ernest Gellner.

3. Where is the Owen fracture zone located?
(a) Off the coast of Somalia.
(b) Off the coast of Oman.
(c) Off the coast of Jeddah.
(d) Off the coast of Dubai.

4. When did the destinies of New York and Mumbai become linked to the British Empire, according to the author in Part 1, Section 10?
(a) The 1660s.
(b) The 1750s.
(c) The 1590s.
(d) The 1620s.

5. 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) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(c) Murali Ranganathan.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the primatologist that insisted on "the unity of all elements on the planet earth--living and non-living" (64)?

2. When did the Enterprise reach Calcutta on its crossing from Falmouth?

3. The first steam-powered vessel to operate in India was a dredger on what river?

4. Who wrote Germinal?

5. Who wrote Storm Surge?

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