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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Section 3 – 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nuclear facility is located near Mumbai's urban limits?
(a) The Tarapur Nuclear Reactor, Maharashtra.
(b) The Rajasthan Atomic Power Project.
(c) The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, Tamil Nadu.
(d) The Bhabba Atomic Research Centre at Trombay.

2. What author did Lionel Trilling famously dismiss as one who thought "like a social function, not a novelist" (79-80)?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Franco Moretti.
(c) John Steinbeck.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

3. What is the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird?
(a) Memphis, Tennessee.
(b) Birmingham, Alabama.
(c) Maycomb, Alabama.
(d) Augusta, Georgia.

4. When did the British Parliament pass the Registry Act that passed tight restrictions on Indian ships and sailors?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1815.
(d) 1842.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author states in Part II, Section 2, "In China, which feeds more than 20 percent of the world's population off 7 percent of the world's arable land, desertification is already causing direct annual losses of" how much (89)?

3. When does the author describe marching in a massive antiwar demonstration in New York in Part III, Section 2?

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

5. When was The Hungry Tide published?

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