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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. On what night did the author read about a cataclysmic tsunami set off by a massive undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean, according to his narrative in Part 1, Section 9?
(a) December 25, 2004.
(b) July 2, 2005.
(c) March 2, 1975.
(d) September 3, 2001.

2. What is the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird?
(a) Augusta, Georgia.
(b) Birmingham, Alabama.
(c) Maycomb, Alabama.
(d) Memphis, Tennessee.

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

4. When was the movie made that is referenced in Part 1, Section 1?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1977.

5. The author states in Part 1, Section 4 that "the climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of" what (9)?
(a) "The imagination."
(b) "The arts."
(c) "Power."
(d) "Politics."

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Cyclone Storm Chapala hit the shores of Yemen?

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. How many were killed by the cyclone that the author describes encountering in Delhi in Part 1, Section 5?

4. What shoreside town of the Nicobar Islands does the author describe having been reduced to its foundations after the tsunami in Part 1, Section 9?

5. When was Rajmohan's Wife written in English?

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