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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. When did the British Parliament pass the Registry Act that passed tight restrictions on Indian ships and sailors?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1842.
(d) 1815.

2. Along what river did the author's parents live in their homeland?
(a) The Ganges River.
(b) The Meghna River.
(c) The Feni River.
(d) The Padma River.

3. Who wrote the novel Solaris?
(a) Bill McKibben.
(b) George Marshall.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

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

5. Who wrote of the genres of science fiction and speculative fiction that they "all draw from the same deep well: those imagined other worlds located somewhere apart from our everyday one..." (72)?
(a) Ernest Gellner.
(b) Margaret Atwood.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Ian Hacking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Sacred Theory of the Earth (1690)?

2. Who "argues that one of the original impulses of modernity is the project of 'partitioning,' or deepening the imaginary gulf between Nature and Culture" (68)?

3. How many people were injured by the cyclone that the author encountered while in Delhi?

4. When did Hurricane Sandy hit New York?

5. Who was Mary Godwin's stepsister with whom Lord Byron had a brief affair in England?

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