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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 geologist wrote, "Money flows toward short term gain and toward the over-exploitation of unregulated common resources" (110)?
(a) Bill McKibben.
(b) David Archer.
(c) Eduardo Kohn.
(d) Arudhati Roy.

2. Who wrote the novel Flight Behavior?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Barbara Kingsolver.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Ernest Gellner.

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

4. What French traveler translated the works of Descartes into Persian during his travels in Asia?
(a) Francois Bernier.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Pierre Zoiche.
(d) Alexandre de Bouchan.

5. What is the title and central subject of Part III?
(a) "Art."
(b) "Politics."
(c) "Stories."
(d) "History."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is M. V. Ramana an associate of the Program on Science and Global Security?

2. After the British deposited Thibaw, Burma's major oil wells passed into British control and became the nucleus of a megacorporation that was known until the 1960s as what?

3. In 1991, a cyclone in Bangladesh resulted in 138,000 people dead. What percentage of them were women?

4. When was A River Called Titash published?

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

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