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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Sections 9 -14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states in Part 1, Section 10 that the city of Mumbai's health infrastructure was intended to cater to a population what times its size?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 1/4.
(c) 4/5.
(d) 3/4.

2. What giant leap of nature likely led to the extinction of the dinosaurs?
(a) The Bennu asteroid.
(b) The Apophis asteroid.
(c) The Chicxulub asteroid.
(d) The Aglale asteroid.

3. On what date did a flood without precedent in Mumbai's recorded history descend on the city, dumping 94.4 cm. of rain in 14 hours on the northern suburbs?
(a) November 3, 2015.
(b) July 26, 2005.
(c) June 4, 2011.
(d) September 6, 2014.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the author with his wife when Hurricane Sandy hit New York?

2. When was Mumbai's earliest recorded encounter with a powerful storm?

3. Who is described in Part 1, Section 6 as "a nineteenth-century Bengali writer and critic who self-consciously adopted the project of carving out fo a space in which realist European-style fiction could be written in the vernacular languages of India" (17)?

4. Who wrote the seminal essay "The Climate of HIstory"?

5. Along what river did the author's parents live in their homeland?

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