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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 prominent historian stated that probability is a "manner of conceiving the world constituted without our being aware of it" (16)?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(c) Franco Moretti.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

2. What term from Norse mythology meaning "great winter" is used in Part 1, Section 12?
(a) Codowintre.
(b) Intuwintre.
(c) Ixbewinter.
(d) Fimbulwinter.

3. When was Rajmohan's Wife written in English?
(a) The early 1840s.
(b) The late 1910s.
(c) The early 1860s.
(d) The early 1920s.

4. Where was the author's first stop on his article about the effects of the tsunami on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Part 1, Section 9?
(a) Port Blair.
(b) Port Osney.
(c) Gopalpur.
(d) Port Sumi.

5. Who wrote "Surely Descartes never saw an ape" (64)?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Ovid.
(c) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(d) Linnaeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the novel Solaris?

2. What is referred to in Part 1, Section 2 as the "great man-grove forest of the Bangal Delta" (5)?

3. What does the Matla River translate to in English?

4. How long is the system of the Owen fracture zone?

5. How many were killed by the cyclone that the author describes encountering in Delhi in Part 1, Section 5?

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