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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people were killed when a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in the Congo in 1988?
(a) 500.
(b) 900.
(c) 1,200.
(d) 1,700.

2. 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) 17,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 6,000.
(d) 12,000.

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

4. Where were the author's parents originally from?
(a) Pakistan.
(b) Nepal.
(c) Bangladesh.
(d) Myanmar.

5. Where is Adam Sobel a professor of atmospheric science?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Howard University.
(d) Columbia University.

6. Where does the author describe experiencing a cyclone that flooded a pond behind his house in Part 1, Section 2?
(a) Cox's Bazar.
(b) Dhaka.
(c) Chattogram.
(d) Sythet.

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

8. To what does the author attribute the tendency for the proximity to water being a status symbol in Part 1, Section 9?
(a) A colonial vision of the world.
(b) A philosophical vision of the world.
(c) A Cartesian vision of the world.
(d) A Buddhist vision of the world.

9. Along what river did the author's parents live in their homeland?
(a) The Padma River.
(b) The Feni River.
(c) The Meghna River.
(d) The Ganges River.

10. 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) Rangat.
(b) Arong.
(c) Malacca.
(d) Tamaloo.

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

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

13. What is the title of Part I of the book?
(a) "Politics."
(b) "Stories."
(c) "Climate."
(d) "History."

14. What earlier book by the author does he reference in Part 1, Section 2?
(a) The Vast Desert.
(b) The Hungry Tide.
(c) The Red Tide.
(d) The Glass House.

15. 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) 200,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 150,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prominent historian stated that probability is a "manner of conceiving the world constituted without our being aware of it" (16)?

2. What nuclear facility is located near Mumbai's urban limits?

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

4. Who is described in Part 1, Section 3 as "one of the finest prose stylists of our time, she is passionate and deeply informed about climate change. Yet all her writings on these subjects are in various forms of nonfiction" (8)?

5. What word used in the text refers to a proposed geological epoch dating from the commencent of significant human impact on the Earth's geology and ecosystems?

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