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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Section 5 - Part III, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the title and focus of Part II?
(a) "The Arts."
(b) "Stories."
(c) "History."
(d) "Politics."

3. The author states in Part 1, Section 2, "Recognition is famously a passage from" what to what (4)?
(a) "Blindness to hope."
(b) "Despair to hope."
(c) "Ignorance to knowledge."
(d) "Injustice to justice."

4. Who was Lord Byron accompanied by when he moved to Geneva?
(a) Alfred Wegener.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) John Milton.
(d) Dr. John Polidori.

5. When did Robert Fulton launch the first commercial steamboat on the Hudson River?
(a) 1811.
(b) 1829.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1807.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author did Lionel Trilling famously dismiss as one who thought "like a social function, not a novelist" (79-80)?

2. Who wrote, "Climate change is inherently uncanny: Weather conditions, and the high-carbon lifestyles that are changing them, are extremely familiar and yet have now been given a new menace and uncertainty" (30)?

3. Who was the author of The Malay Archipleago?

4. When did the British Parliament pass the Registry Act that passed tight restrictions on Indian ships and sailors?

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

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