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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 word from Part II, Section 8 means ruling or dominant in a political or social context?
(a) Admonic.
(b) Esoteric.
(c) Articulate.
(d) Hegemonic.

2. How many tons of dust did Mount Tambora emit when it erupted?
(a) 1.7 million.
(b) 4 million.
(c) 2.2 million.
(d) 0.5 million.

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

4. To what does the author attribute the tendency for the proximity to water being a status symbol in Part 1, Section 9?
(a) A philosophical vision of the world.
(b) A Cartesian vision of the world.
(c) A Buddhist vision of the world.
(d) A colonial vision of the world.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The novel The Circle of Reason involves the discovery of oil in a fictional emirate called what?

2. Who announced in 1964, "The humanist intellectual is, essentially, an expert on the written world" (84)?

3. Where does the author describe experiencing a cyclone that flooded a pond behind his house in Part 1, Section 2?

4. What anthropologist wrote How Forests Think?

5. What is the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird?

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