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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. Between 1998 and 2001, three cyclones crashed into the Indian subcontinent to the north of Mumbai. Approximately how many people were killed in these events?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 17,000.
(d) 12,000.

2. What is one of India's most important scientific bodies that is located at the southernmost tip of Mumbai?
(a) Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh.
(b) All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
(c) The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
(d) The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

3. Who wrote Germinal?
(a) Emile Zola.
(b) Ernest Gellner.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

4. From where in the Congo did a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in 1988?
(a) Boga Lake.
(b) Kaptai Lake.
(c) Lake Nyos.
(d) Foy's Lake.

5. What was the first year that the Arabian Sea was known to have generated more storms than the Bay of Bengal?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2019.
(d) 2001.

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. The 1971 Bhola Cyclone is thought to have killed how many people?

3. What literary theorist said "fillers function very much like the good manners so important in [Jane] Austen" (17)?

4. What organization did Paul Kingsnorth create as "a network of writers, artists, and thinkers who have stopped believing the stories our civilization tells itself" (8)?

5. 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?

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