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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. When did the site of today's Mumbai first come under European rule when it was ceded to the Portuguese by the ruler of Gujarat?
(a) 1535.
(b) 1602.
(c) 1502.
(d) 1556.

2. Who wrote Frankenstein?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Ernest Gellner.
(d) Mary Shelley.

3. Where was the author with his wife when Hurricane Sandy hit New York?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Goa.
(c) Bali.
(d) Iran.

4. When did Cyclone Storm Chapala hit the shores of Yemen?
(a) May 6, 2017.
(b) September 6, 2014.
(c) November 3, 2015.
(d) June 4, 2011.

5. Who wrote of the genres of science fiction and speculative fiction that they "all draw from the same deep well: those imagined other worlds located somewhere apart from our everyday one..." (72)?
(a) Ernest Gellner.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Margaret Atwood.
(d) Ian Hacking.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1991, a cyclone in Bangladesh resulted in 138,000 people dead. What percentage of them were women?

2. What much-admired historical novel by Paul Kingsnorth is referenced in Part 1, Section 3?

3. 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?

4. What term from Norse mythology meaning "great winter" is used in Part 1, Section 12?

5. Who is described in Part 1, Section 3 as "one of the finest prose stylists of our time, she is passionate and deeply informed about climate change. Yet all her writings on these subjects are in various forms of nonfiction" (8)?

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