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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Section 3 – 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Paradise Lost?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Alfred Wegener.
(d) John Milton.

2. Where were the author's parents originally from?
(a) Pakistan.
(b) Bangladesh.
(c) Myanmar.
(d) Nepal.

3. When was Warren Hastings impeached?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1788.

4. Who wrote An Attempt to Develop the Law of Storms in 1828?
(a) Colonel Henry Reid.
(b) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(c) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

5. About how long ago did China go through a "medieval economic revolution," according to the author in Part II, Section 5 (96)?
(a) 500.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 1,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did U. Thant serve as the secretary-general of the United Nations?

2. Where is the Owen fracture zone located?

3. How long is the system of the Owen fracture zone?

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

5. According to the author in Part III, Section 6, David Archer estimates that to reach a genuinely fair solution to the problem of emissions, it would require cuts in the developed world by about what percentage?

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