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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 did the tsunami's actions respond to the system of military rank in how it hit the Nicobar Islands?
(a) It extended it.
(b) It suppressed it.
(c) It retained it.
(d) It inverted it.

2. Who wrote the novel Solaris?
(a) Bill McKibben.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) George Marshall.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

3. When did King Charles II marry Catherine of Graganza?
(a) 1673.
(b) 1701.
(c) 1661.
(d) 1692.

4. Who wrote Madame Bovary?
(a) Stephen Jay Gould.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.

5. Along what river did the author's ancestors settle after their original village was flooded?
(a) The Meghna River.
(b) The Ganges River.
(c) The Feni River.
(d) The Muhuri River.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the author's first stop on his article about the effects of the tsunami on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Part 1, Section 9?

2. From where in the Congo did a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in 1988?

3. Where is M. V. Ramana an associate of the Program on Science and Global Security?

4. 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?

5. What neighborhoods of Long Island does the author describe looking out of on a flight into J.F.K. and thinking they were sure to be swamped in a storm surge in Part 1, Section 9?

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