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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was The Hungry Tide published?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2006.

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

3. Who is describd as the protagonist in Bon Bibir Johuranama?
(a) Dukhey.
(b) Narayan.
(c) Saraswati.
(d) Dokkhin Rai.

4. 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?
(a) 150,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 100,000.

5. Who wrote Paradise Lost?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Alfred Wegener.
(c) John Milton.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

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

7. Where is M. V. Ramana an associate of the Program on Science and Global Security?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Yale University.

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

9. The author states in Part 1, Section 10 that the city of Mumbai's health infrastructure was intended to cater to a population what times its size?
(a) 4/5.
(b) 1/4.
(c) 3/4.
(d) 1/2.

10. Between 1998 and 2001, three cyclones crashed into the Indian subcontinent to the north of Mumbai. Approximately how many people were killed in these events?
(a) 6,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 12,000.
(d) 17,000.

11. Who wrote the novel Solaris?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) George Marshall.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Bill McKibben.

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

13. What is the average population of the Greater Mumbai area today?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 30 million.
(d) 15 million.

14. In what century were Mumbai, Chennai, New York, and Charleston founded?
(a) The 17th century.
(b) The 16th century.
(c) The 16th century.
(d) The 18th century.

15. When did the great earthquake hit the Italian town of L'Aquila, according to the author in Part 1, Section 7?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2016.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2009.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hurricane Sandy hit New York?

2. What organization did Paul Kingsnorth create as "a network of writers, artists, and thinkers who have stopped believing the stories our civilization tells itself" (8)?

3. Who wrote Sacred Theory of the Earth (1690)?

4. The author states in Part 1, Section 2, "Recognition is famously a passage from" what to what (4)?

5. 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)?

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