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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. The Bengal Delta is formed by the confluence of what rivers?
(a) The Ganges and the Brahmaputra.
(b) The Muhuri and the Padma.
(c) The Feni and the Ganges.
(d) The Meghna and the Ganges.

2. What shoreside town of the Nicobar Islands does the author describe having been reduced to its foundations after the tsunami in Part 1, Section 9?
(a) Arong.
(b) Malacca.
(c) Rangat.
(d) Tamaloo.

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

4. How did the tsunami's actions respond to the system of military rank in how it hit the Nicobar Islands?
(a) It suppressed it.
(b) It inverted it.
(c) It extended it.
(d) It retained it.

5. When did the Kosi River disaster in Bihar occur?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2008.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote, "Twentieth-century art has tended to search itself rather than exterior reality for beauty of meaning or truth, a condition that entails a new relationship between the work of art, the world, the spectator, and the artist" (119)?

2. What French traveler translated the works of Descartes into Persian during his travels in Asia?

3. On what date did a flood without precedent in Mumbai's recorded history descend on the city, dumping 94.4 cm. of rain in 14 hours on the northern suburbs?

4. Who is the author of Rapture?

5. Who was the originator of the theory of continental drift?

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