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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. From where in the Congo did a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in 1988?
(a) Foy's Lake.
(b) Boga Lake.
(c) Kaptai Lake.
(d) Lake Nyos.

2. Who wrote the seminal essay "The Climate of HIstory"?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Arudhati Roy.
(c) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

3. What is one of India's most important scientific bodies that is located at the southernmost tip of Mumbai?
(a) Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh.
(b) The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
(c) The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
(d) All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

4. When was The Hungry Tide published?
(a) 2006.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2009.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author's forebearers resettle after the flooding of their first village?

2. What is the average population of the Greater Mumbai area today?

3. When did the great river that bordered the author's parents' homeland suddenly change course, drowning the village?

4. What much-admired historical novel by Paul Kingsnorth is referenced in Part 1, Section 3?

5. Who wrote the novel Solaris?

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