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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. How many people were injured by the cyclone that the author encountered while in Delhi?
(a) 800.
(b) 500.
(c) 600.
(d) 700.

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

3. Who wrote "Surely Descartes never saw an ape" (64)?
(a) Ovid.
(b) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Linnaeus.

4. When did the great river that bordered the author's parents' homeland suddenly change course, drowning the village?
(a) The mid-1860s.
(b) The mid-1850s.
(c) The late-1870s.
(d) The early-1840s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hurricane Sandy hit New York?

2. The author concludes Part 1, Section 14 with the following: "So, if for a moment, we were to take seriously the premise that I started with--that the Anthropocene has forced us to recognize that there are other, fully aware eyes looking over our shoulders--the the first question to present itself is this" (66). What is the question he poses next?

3. Along what river did the author's ancestors settle after their original village was flooded?

4. Who wrote, "Climate change is inherently uncanny: Weather conditions, and the high-carbon lifestyles that are changing them, are extremely familiar and yet have now been given a new menace and uncertainty" (30)?

5. The death toll of the 1882 Bombay cyclone was said to be upward of what number, according to the initial articles examined by the author in Part 1, Section 10?

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