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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. Where is the Owen fracture zone located?
(a) Off the coast of Jeddah.
(b) Off the coast of Dubai.
(c) Off the coast of Oman.
(d) Off the coast of Somalia.

2. In what century were Mumbai, Chennai, New York, and Charleston founded?
(a) The 18th century.
(b) The 16th century.
(c) The 17th century.
(d) The 16th century.

3. Who wrote An Attempt to Develop the Law of Storms in 1828?
(a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(b) Colonel Henry Reid.
(c) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote, more than a quarter of a century ago, "We live in a post-natural world" (33)?

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

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. What prominent historian stated that probability is a "manner of conceiving the world constituted without our being aware of it" (16)?

5. The author states in Part 1, Section 4 that "the climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of" what (9)?

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