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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. What nuclear facility is located near Mumbai's urban limits?
(a) The Rajasthan Atomic Power Project.
(b) The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, Tamil Nadu.
(c) The Bhabba Atomic Research Centre at Trombay.
(d) The Tarapur Nuclear Reactor, Maharashtra.

2. What neighborhoods of Long Island does the author describe looking out of on a flight into J.F.K. and thinking they were sure to be swamped in a storm surge in Part 1, Section 9?
(a) Astoria and Williamsburg.
(b) Far Rockaway and Long Beach.
(c) Bellerose Terrace and Long Island City.
(d) Hicksville and North Fork.

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

4. Where did the author's forebearers resettle after the flooding of their first village?
(a) Bihar.
(b) Sythet.
(c) Dhaka.
(d) Pataukhali.

5. What is referred to in Part 1, Section 2 as the "great man-grove forest of the Bangal Delta" (5)?
(a) The Bandharas.
(b) The Gulshans.
(c) The Sundarbans.
(d) The Dhanmondis.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What earlier book by the author does he reference in Part 1, Section 2?

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

5. Where is the Owen fracture zone located?

(see the answer key)

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