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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 Madame Bovary?
(a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(b) Stephen Jay Gould.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

2. What French traveler translated the works of Descartes into Persian during his travels in Asia?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Francois Bernier.
(c) Alexandre de Bouchan.
(d) Pierre Zoiche.

3. How many people were killed when a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in the Congo in 1988?
(a) 1,200.
(b) 1,700.
(c) 900.
(d) 500.

4. The author asserts in Part III, Section 3, "Sincerity has nothing to do with rationing water during a drought, as in today's California: this is not a measure that can be left to the individual conscience. To think in those terms is to accept" what (133)?
(a) "Collective responsibility."
(b) "Personal responsibility."
(c) "Neo-liberal premises."
(d) "Neo-conservative premises."

5. Who wrote Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Stephen Jay Gould.
(d) Alfred Wegener.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created 350.org?

2. 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?

3. Near what town was the site of the first successful drilling at Oil Well Creek located?

4. How did the tsunami's actions respond to the system of military rank in how it hit the Nicobar Islands?

5. What is one of India's most important scientific bodies that is located at the southernmost tip of Mumbai?

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