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

2. Who wrote Storm Surge?
(a) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(b) Adam Sobel.
(c) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

3. 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 Meghna and the Ganges.
(d) The Feni and the Ganges.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many tons of dust did Mount Tambora emit when it erupted?

3. What is the average population of the Greater Mumbai area today?

4. When did the destinies of New York and Mumbai become linked to the British Empire, according to the author in Part 1, Section 10?

5. What much-admired historical novel by Paul Kingsnorth is referenced in Part 1, Section 3?

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