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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. Where is Adam Sobel a professor of atmospheric science?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Howard University.
(d) Princeton University.

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

3. Where is the Owen fracture zone located?
(a) Off the coast of Jeddah.
(b) Off the coast of Oman.
(c) Off the coast of Somalia.
(d) Off the coast of Dubai.

4. Who wrote, more than a quarter of a century ago, "We live in a post-natural world" (33)?
(a) Bill McKibben.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) George Marshall.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did King Charles II marry Catherine of Graganza?

2. How did the tsunami's actions respond to the system of military rank in how it hit the Nicobar Islands?

3. The death toll of the 1882 Bombay cyclone was said to be upward of what number, according to the initial articles examined by the author in Part 1, Section 10?

4. When did the destinies of New York and Mumbai become linked to the British Empire, according to the author in Part 1, Section 10?

5. Along what river did the author's parents live in their homeland?

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