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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 Sacred Theory of the Earth (1690)?
(a) Thomas Burnet.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Alfred Wegener.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

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

3. Who is describd as the protagonist in Bon Bibir Johuranama?
(a) Dokkhin Rai.
(b) Narayan.
(c) Dukhey.
(d) Saraswati.

4. 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) Arudhati Roy.
(c) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(d) Bill McKibben.

5. When did Giovanni da Verrazzano land on Manhattan?
(a) 1502.
(b) 1524.
(c) 1559.
(d) 1602.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Kosi River disaster in Bihar occur?

2. What is the name of the tiger demon featured in Bon Bibir Johuranama?

3. Who wrote, asking of England, "And was Jerusalem builded here, / Among these dark Satanic mills?" (69)?

4. When was the manuel Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan published?

5. How many people were killed when a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in the Congo in 1988?

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