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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. When was the city of Port Canning inaugurated with a grand ceremony?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1864.
(d) 1826.

2. Who said, "Famine or no famine, Indians will breed like rabbits" (144)?
(a) Winston Churchill.
(b) Timothy Mitchell.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) John Maynard Keynes.

3. The author's novel The Glass Palace touches upon a place in Burma where oil had bubbled up to the surface. What is the name of the place?
(a) Chattogram.
(b) Yenangyaung.
(c) Dhaka.
(d) Sythet.

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

5. Who is quoted in Part III, Section 3 for having said, "'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger" (134)?
(a) John Maynard Keynes.
(b) David Hume.
(c) Christian Parenti.
(d) Eduardo Kohn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who announced in 1964, "The humanist intellectual is, essentially, an expert on the written world" (84)?

2. When was the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek organized?

3. Who organized the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek?

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. In what novel by the author does he describe a character experiencing the crossing of the Enterprise?

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