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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Section 5 - Part III, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Between 1998 and 2001, three cyclones crashed into the Indian subcontinent to the north of Mumbai. Approximately how many people were killed in these events?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 12,000.
(d) 17,000.

2. The author states in Part II, Section 1, "If Bruno Latour is right, then to be modern is to envision time as" what (123)?
(a) "Constant."
(b) "Irreversable."
(c) "Reversable."
(d) "Functioning."

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

4. What term from Norse mythology meaning "great winter" is used in Part 1, Section 12?
(a) Ixbewinter.
(b) Fimbulwinter.
(c) Codowintre.
(d) Intuwintre.

5. What prominent historian stated that probability is a "manner of conceiving the world constituted without our being aware of it" (16)?
(a) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Franco Moretti.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the nineteenth-century expert on Mumbai that the author turned to for assistance in finding out about the 1882 Bombay cyclone?

3. When did Giovanni da Verrazzano land on Manhattan?

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

5. When does the author describe marching in a massive antiwar demonstration in New York in Part III, Section 2?

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