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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. When did Hurricane Sandy hit New York?
(a) 2005.
(b) 2016.
(c) 2012.
(d) 2009.

2. 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?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 25,000.

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

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?
(a) 1602.
(b) 1535.
(c) 1502.
(d) 1556.

5. Who was the originator of the theory of continental drift?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) Alfred Wegener.
(d) Thomas Burnet.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Dutch build Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island?

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

3. The author states in Part 1, Section 2, "Recognition is famously a passage from" what to what (4)?

4. Who wrote Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle?

5. Where is Adam Sobel a professor of atmospheric science?

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