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

2. 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?
(a) Tamaloo.
(b) Rangat.
(c) Malacca.
(d) Arong.

3. Near what town was the site of the first successful drilling at Oil Well Creek located?
(a) Albany, New York.
(b) Titusville, Pennsylvania.
(c) Princeton, New Jersey.
(d) Hershey, Pennsylvania.

4. When was Mumbai's earliest recorded encounter with a powerful storm?
(a) May 4, 1599.
(b) May 15, 1618.
(c) June 12, 1593.
(d) September 2, 1659.

5. 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) September 3, 2001.
(c) July 2, 2005.
(d) March 2, 1975.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Who wrote The Retreat of the Elephants?

3. The author's novel The Glass Palace touches upon a place in Burma where oil had bubbled up to the surface. What is the name of the place?

4. What does the folk epic of the Sundurbans, Bon Bibir Johuranama, translate to in English?

5. When did the Dutch build Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island?

(see the answer key)

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