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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. What does the folk epic of the Sundurbans, Bon Bibir Johuranama, translate to in English?
(a) The Damnation of Bon Bibi.
(b) The Death of Bon Bibi.
(c) The Miracles of Bon Bibi.
(d) The Journey of Bon Bibi.

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

3. 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)?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Arudhati Roy.
(c) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

4. What giant leap of nature likely led to the extinction of the dinosaurs?
(a) The Chicxulub asteroid.
(b) The Apophis asteroid.
(c) The Bennu asteroid.
(d) The Aglale asteroid.

5. On what night did the author read about a cataclysmic tsunami set off by a massive undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean, according to his narrative in Part 1, Section 9?
(a) March 2, 1975.
(b) July 2, 2005.
(c) December 25, 2004.
(d) September 3, 2001.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Storm Surge?

2. When does the author describe a descending hailstorm in north Delhi in the beginning of Part 1, Section 5?

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

4. Where were the author's parents originally from?

5. Who wrote, more than a quarter of a century ago, "We live in a post-natural world" (33)?

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