1. When did the great earthquake hit the Italian town of L'Aquila, according to the author in Part 1, Section 7?
(a) 2005.
(b) 2016.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2012.

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) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(b) Murali Ranganathan.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Dipesh Chakrabarty.

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

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?
(a) 12,000.
(b) 17,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 6,000.

5. In 1991, a cyclone in Bangladesh resulted in 138,000 people dead. What percentage of them were women?
(a) 60%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 70%.
(d) 90%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described in Part 1, Section 6 as "a nineteenth-century Bengali writer and critic who self-consciously adopted the project of carving out fo a space in which realist European-style fiction could be written in the vernacular languages of India" (17)?

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

3. 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?

4. Who wrote "Surely Descartes never saw an ape" (64)?

5. The 1971 Bhola Cyclone is thought to have killed how many people?

(see the answer key)

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