1. Who wrote the sonnet "The World Is Too Much With Us"?
(a) Ernest Gellner.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) William Wordsworth.

2. The author states in Part 1, Section 10 that the city of Mumbai's health infrastructure was intended to cater to a population what times its size?
(a) 4/5.
(b) 1/4.
(c) 3/4.
(d) 1/2.

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

4. Who organized the first successful drilling of an oil well at Oil Well Creek?
(a) Colonel Edwin L. Drake.
(b) Colonel Thomas Burnet.
(c) Colonel Bill McKibben.
(d) Colonel George Marshall.

5. What is referred to in Part 1, Section 2 as the "great man-grove forest of the Bangal Delta" (5)?
(a) The Gulshans.
(b) The Sundarbans.
(c) The Bandharas.
(d) The Dhanmondis.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Who wrote Cities of Salt?

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

4. When was The Circle of Reason published?

5. What movie does the author reference in Part 1, Section 1 as an illustration of the inanimate being revealed to be animate?

(see the answer key)

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