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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 "argues that one of the original impulses of modernity is the project of 'partitioning,' or deepening the imaginary gulf between Nature and Culture" (68)?
(a) Bruno Latour.
(b) Ernest Gellner.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Ian Hacking.

2. 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?
(a) Gopalpur.
(b) Port Osney.
(c) Port Blair.
(d) Port Sumi.

3. The author's novel The Glass Palace touches upon a place in Burma where oil had bubbled up to the surface. What is the name of the place?
(a) Sythet.
(b) Chattogram.
(c) Dhaka.
(d) Yenangyaung.

4. The word "moral" comes from a Latin root signifying what?
(a) Good.
(b) Omniscient.
(c) Godly.
(d) Custom.

5. The author asserts in Part II, Section 8, "Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon" what (108)?
(a) "Fear and sorrow."
(b) "Admixture and interbreeding."
(c) "Nature."
(d) "Stress and anxiety."

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the book refers to the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history, as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time?

2. Near what town was the site of the first successful drilling at Oil Well Creek located?

3. When did the Dutch build Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island?

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?

5. What is the average population of the Greater Mumbai area today?

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