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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. In the First Opium War, armored steamships led by one named what, played a decisive role?
(a) The Empire.
(b) The Nemesis.
(c) The Pegasus.
(d) The Cloud.

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

3. Who is the author of Rapture?
(a) Ernest Gellner.
(b) Liz Jensen.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

4. Who wrote The Circle of Reason?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Franco Moretti.
(c) Amitav Ghosh.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

5. What much-admired historical novel by Paul Kingsnorth is referenced in Part 1, Section 3?
(a) The Glass Room.
(b) The Wake.
(c) The Flood.
(d) The Falling Tide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is described by the author in Part 1, Section 10 as one of Mumbai's most famous iconic street with sea-facing hotels famous for sunset views?

2. What storm was generated in the Arabian Sea in 2007, noted as its strongest storm ever?

3. 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?

4. 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)?

5. Who created 350.org?

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