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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 Hungry Tide.
(c) The Glass House.
(d) The Red Tide.

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

3. When did the site of today's Mumbai first come under European rule when it was ceded to the Portuguese by the ruler of Gujarat?
(a) 1556.
(b) 1502.
(c) 1535.
(d) 1602.

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

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

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

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

8. When was The Hungry Tide published?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2006.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2004.

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

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

11. The author concludes Part 1, Section 14 with the following: "So, if for a moment, we were to take seriously the premise that I started with--that the Anthropocene has forced us to recognize that there are other, fully aware eyes looking over our shoulders--the the first question to present itself is this" (66). What is the question he poses next?
(a) "What is the nonhuman being looking over us?"
(b) "What is our place in this society?"
(c) "What is the place for the nonhuman in the modern novel?"
(d) "What is our place within Nature?"

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

13. What nuclear facility is located near Mumbai's urban limits?
(a) The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, Tamil Nadu.
(b) The Rajasthan Atomic Power Project.
(c) The Tarapur Nuclear Reactor, Maharashtra.
(d) The Bhabba Atomic Research Centre at Trombay.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Paradise Lost?

2. 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)?

3. 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)?

4. 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)?

5. How many were killed by the cyclone that the author describes encountering in Delhi in Part 1, Section 5?

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