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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What storm was generated in the Arabian Sea in 2007, noted as its strongest storm ever?
(a) Cyclone Odisha.
(b) Cyclone Vayu.
(c) Cyclone Amphan.
(d) Cyclone Gonu.

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)?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) George Marshall.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) John Milton.

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

6. What is described by the author in Part 1, Section 10 as one of Mumbai's most famous iconic street with sea-facing hotels famous for sunset views?
(a) Apex Drive.
(b) Sunset Drive.
(c) Marine Drive.
(d) River Drive.

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

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

9. When did Hurricane Catarina stike the coast of Brazil?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2016.
(d) 2012.

10. What prominent historian stated that probability is a "manner of conceiving the world constituted without our being aware of it" (16)?
(a) Franco Moretti.
(b) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Ian Hacking.

11. Where was the author with his wife when Hurricane Sandy hit New York?
(a) Iran.
(b) Bali.
(c) Goa.
(d) Turkey.

12. Who was the originator of the theory of continental drift?
(a) Alfred Wegener.
(b) Thomas Burnet.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

13. Who was the nineteenth-century expert on Mumbai that the author turned to for assistance in finding out about the 1882 Bombay cyclone?
(a) Murali Ranganathan.
(b) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(c) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

14. When did King Charles II marry Catherine of Graganza?
(a) 1701.
(b) 1673.
(c) 1661.
(d) 1692.

15. From where in the Congo did a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in 1988?
(a) Boga Lake.
(b) Lake Nyos.
(c) Foy's Lake.
(d) Kaptai Lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described in Part 1, Section 6 as "a nineteenth-century Bengali writer and critic who self-consciously adopted the project of carving out fo a space in which realist European-style fiction could be written in the vernacular languages of India" (17)?

2. How long is the system of the Owen fracture zone?

3. Who wrote Storm Surge?

4. When did Hurricane Sandy hit New York?

5. How did the tsunami's actions respond to the system of military rank in how it hit the Nicobar Islands?

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