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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. The author states in Part 1, Section 4 that "the climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of" what (9)?
(a) "Politics."
(b) "Power."
(c) "The imagination."
(d) "The arts."

2. Between 1998 and 2001, three cyclones crashed into the Indian subcontinent to the north of Mumbai. Approximately how many people were killed in these events?
(a) 12,000.
(b) 17,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 6,000.

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

4. When did the Dutch build Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island?
(a) 1625.
(b) 1616.
(c) 1682.
(d) 1699.

5. Where is Adam Sobel a professor of atmospheric science?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Howard University.
(d) Princeton University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the nineteenth-century expert on Mumbai that the author turned to for assistance in finding out about the 1882 Bombay cyclone?

2. What storm was generated in the Arabian Sea in 2007, noted as its strongest storm ever?

3. When did the site of today's Mumbai first come under European rule when it was ceded to the Portuguese by the ruler of Gujarat?

4. When did Hurricane Catarina stike the coast of Brazil?

5. The death toll of the 1882 Bombay cyclone was said to be upward of what number, according to the initial articles examined by the author in Part 1, Section 10?

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