1. What much-admired historical novel by Paul Kingsnorth is referenced in Part 1, Section 3?
(a) The Glass Room.
(b) The Wake.
(c) The Flood.
(d) The Falling Tide.

2. When was the city of Port Canning inaugurated with a grand ceremony?
(a) 1826.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1864.

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

4. 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) Bellerose Terrace and Long Island City.
(c) Far Rockaway and Long Beach.
(d) Hicksville and North Fork.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. What is referred to in Part 1, Section 2 as the "great man-grove forest of the Bangal Delta" (5)?

3. The author states in Part 1, Section 4 that "the climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of" what (9)?

4. Who was the originator of the theory of continental drift?

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

(see the answer key)

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