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

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

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?
(a) June 4, 2011.
(b) November 3, 2015.
(c) September 6, 2014.
(d) July 26, 2005.

4. How many were killed by the cyclone that the author describes encountering in Delhi in Part 1, Section 5?
(a) 65.
(b) 30.
(c) 59.
(d) 22.

5. Who is noted as having pointed out that the period of the Great Accelleration is precisely "the period of great decolonization in countries that had been dominated by European imperial powers" (109)?
(a) Eduardo Kohn.
(b) Bill McKibben.
(c) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(d) Arudhati Roy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the city of Port Canning inaugurated with a grand ceremony?

3. When did the Enterprise reach Calcutta on its crossing from Falmouth?

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

5. When did Cyclone Storm Chapala hit the shores of Yemen?

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