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

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

3. When did Hurricane Catarina stike the coast of Brazil?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2016.
(d) 2009.

4. To what does the author attribute the tendency for the proximity to water being a status symbol in Part 1, Section 9?
(a) A philosophical vision of the world.
(b) A Buddhist vision of the world.
(c) A colonial vision of the world.
(d) A Cartesian vision of the world.

5. On what night did the author read about a cataclysmic tsunami set off by a massive undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean, according to his narrative in Part 1, Section 9?
(a) December 25, 2004.
(b) July 2, 2005.
(c) September 3, 2001.
(d) March 2, 1975.

Short Answer Questions

1. What giant leap of nature likely led to the extinction of the dinosaurs?

2. Along what river did the author's ancestors settle after their original village was flooded?

3. What literary theorist said "fillers function very much like the good manners so important in [Jane] Austen" (17)?

4. 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?

5. What is the name of the tiger demon featured in Bon Bibir Johuranama?

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