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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the author describe a descending hailstorm in north Delhi in the beginning of Part 1, Section 5?
(a) March 12, 1982.
(b) September 5, 2018.
(c) June 12, 1975.
(d) March 17, 1978.

2. Where was the author's first stop on his article about the effects of the tsunami on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Part 1, Section 9?
(a) Gopalpur.
(b) Port Blair.
(c) Port Sumi.
(d) Port Osney.

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

4. Who is the primatologist that insisted on "the unity of all elements on the planet earth--living and non-living" (64)?
(a) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) Imanishi Kinji.
(d) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.

5. When did Cyclone Storm Chapala hit the shores of Yemen?
(a) September 6, 2014.
(b) May 6, 2017.
(c) November 3, 2015.
(d) June 4, 2011.

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

7. When did the destinies of New York and Mumbai become linked to the British Empire, according to the author in Part 1, Section 10?
(a) The 1620s.
(b) The 1750s.
(c) The 1590s.
(d) The 1660s.

8. When was Rajmohan's Wife written in English?
(a) The late 1910s.
(b) The early 1920s.
(c) The early 1840s.
(d) The early 1860s.

9. When did Hurricane Sandy hit New York?
(a) 2016.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2009.

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

11. What term from Norse mythology meaning "great winter" is used in Part 1, Section 12?
(a) Fimbulwinter.
(b) Codowintre.
(c) Intuwintre.
(d) Ixbewinter.

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

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

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) March 1999.
(c) May 2002.
(d) September 2000.

15. 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) Ian Hacking.
(c) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author describe experiencing a cyclone that flooded a pond behind his house in Part 1, Section 2?

2. 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)?

3. Where is Adam Sobel a professor of atmospheric science?

4. Who wrote, more than a quarter of a century ago, "We live in a post-natural world" (33)?

5. When did Hurricane Catarina stike the coast of Brazil?

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