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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of India's most important scientific bodies that is located at the southernmost tip of Mumbai?
(a) Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh.
(b) The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
(c) All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
(d) The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

2. Where did the author's forebearers resettle after the flooding of their first village?
(a) Pataukhali.
(b) Dhaka.
(c) Bihar.
(d) Sythet.

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

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

5. When was the city of Port Canning inaugurated with a grand ceremony?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1864.
(d) 1826.

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

7. Who wrote Sacred Theory of the Earth (1690)?
(a) Thomas Burnet.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) Alfred Wegener.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

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

9. When did the Dutch build Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island?
(a) 1625.
(b) 1616.
(c) 1682.
(d) 1699.

10. What does the Matla River translate to in English?
(a) Crazed River.
(b) Rushing River.
(c) Loving River.
(d) Slow River.

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

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

13. What is the name of the tiger demon featured in Bon Bibir Johuranama?
(a) Dokkhin Rai.
(b) Saraswati.
(c) Lakshmi.
(d) Dukhey.

14. 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) 6,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 12,000.

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

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 movie does the author reference in Part 1, Section 1 as an illustration of the inanimate being revealed to be animate?

3. When was Rajmohan's Wife written in English?

4. Along what river did the author's parents live in their homeland?

5. 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)?

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