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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. How many people were injured by the cyclone that the author encountered while in Delhi?
(a) 600.
(b) 500.
(c) 700.
(d) 800.

2. What is the average population of the Greater Mumbai area today?
(a) 15 million.
(b) 20 million.
(c) 10 million.
(d) 30 million.

3. Who was the nineteenth-century expert on Mumbai that the author turned to for assistance in finding out about the 1882 Bombay cyclone?
(a) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(b) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(c) Murali Ranganathan.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

4. What organization did Paul Kingsnorth create as "a network of writers, artists, and thinkers who have stopped believing the stories our civilization tells itself" (8)?
(a) The Dark Mountain Project.
(b) The White Elephant Project.
(c) The Green Tiger Project.
(d) The Blue Ridge Project.

5. Who wrote Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Alfred Wegener.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Stephen Jay Gould.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Part 1, Section 10, how many passengers does Mumbai's suburban railway network transport on weekdays?

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

3. Who is the primatologist that insisted on "the unity of all elements on the planet earth--living and non-living" (64)?

4. When was The Hungry Tide published?

5. What is described by the author in Part 1, Section 10 as one of Mumbai's most famous iconic street with sea-facing hotels famous for sunset views?

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