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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 Giovanni da Verrazzano land on Manhattan?
(a) 1559.
(b) 1524.
(c) 1502.
(d) 1602.

2. 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) Ian Hacking.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Ernest Gellner.
(d) Margaret Atwood.

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

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

5. Who is describd as the protagonist in Bon Bibir Johuranama?
(a) Dokkhin Rai.
(b) Dukhey.
(c) Narayan.
(d) Saraswati.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did a flood without precedent in Mumbai's recorded history descend on the city, dumping 94.4 cm. of rain in 14 hours on the northern suburbs?

2. Where is the Owen fracture zone located?

3. Who wrote the novel Flight Behavior?

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

5. What author did Lionel Trilling famously dismiss as one who thought "like a social function, not a novelist" (79-80)?

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