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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. Who was the author of The Malay Archipleago?
(a) Alfred Russell Wallace.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Ernest Gellner.

2. When did Hurricane Catarina stike the coast of Brazil?
(a) 2004.
(b) 2016.
(c) 2012.
(d) 2009.

3. Along what river did the author's ancestors settle after their original village was flooded?
(a) The Meghna River.
(b) The Feni River.
(c) The Muhuri River.
(d) The Ganges River.

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

5. Who wrote Cities of Salt?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Abdul Rahman Munif.
(c) Franco Moretti.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the author's parents originally from?

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

3. What is the title of Part I of the book?

4. When does the author describe a descending hailstorm in north Delhi in the beginning of Part 1, Section 5?

5. When did the author write the note: "I do believe it to be true that the land here is demonstrably alive; that it does not exist solely, or even incidentally, as a stage for the enactment of human history; that it is [itself] a protagonist" (6)?

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