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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Sections 9 -14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people were injured by the cyclone that the author encountered while in Delhi?
(a) 500.
(b) 800.
(c) 700.
(d) 600.

2. How did the tsunami's actions respond to the system of military rank in how it hit the Nicobar Islands?
(a) It inverted it.
(b) It extended it.
(c) It suppressed it.
(d) It retained it.

3. What is the title of Part I of the book?
(a) "Climate."
(b) "History."
(c) "Politics."
(d) "Stories."

4. How many were killed by the cyclone that the author describes encountering in Delhi in Part 1, Section 5?
(a) 59.
(b) 22.
(c) 65.
(d) 30.

5. Who wrote Paradise Lost?
(a) John Milton.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Alfred Wegener.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Rajmohan's Wife written in English?

2. When did the author write the note: "I do believe it to be true that the land here is demonstrably alive; that it does not exist solely, or even incidentally, as a stage for the enactment of human history; that it is [itself] a protagonist" (6)?

3. Where was the author with his wife when Hurricane Sandy hit New York?

4. What storm was generated in the Arabian Sea in 2007, noted as its strongest storm ever?

5. To what does the author attribute the tendency for the proximity to water being a status symbol in Part 1, Section 9?

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