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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did a flood without precedent in Mumbai's recorded history descend on the city, dumping 94.4 cm. of rain in 14 hours on the northern suburbs?
(a) November 3, 2015.
(b) July 26, 2005.
(c) June 4, 2011.
(d) September 6, 2014.

2. 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) 1/4.
(b) 4/5.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 3/4.

3. What does the folk epic of the Sundurbans, Bon Bibir Johuranama, translate to in English?
(a) The Journey of Bon Bibi.
(b) The Death of Bon Bibi.
(c) The Miracles of Bon Bibi.
(d) The Damnation of Bon Bibi.

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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)?
(a) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(b) Arudhati Roy.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

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

11. Who wrote Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle?
(a) Stephen Jay Gould.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) Alfred Wegener.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

12. How long is the system of the Owen fracture zone?
(a) 800 kilometers.
(b) 200 kilometers.
(c) 500 kilometers.
(d) 1,000 kilometers.

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

14. When did the author write the note: "I do believe it to be true that the land here is demonstrably alive; that it does not exist solely, or even incidentally, as a stage for the enactment of human history; that it is [itself] a protagonist" (6)?
(a) June 2003.
(b) September 2000.
(c) March 1999.
(d) May 2002.

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) 25,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 150,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The author states in Part 1, Section 4 that "the climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of" what (9)?

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

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)?

5. What does the Matla River translate to in English?

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