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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people were killed when a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in the Congo in 1988?
(a) 900.
(b) 1,200.
(c) 500.
(d) 1,700.

2. The author states in Part 1, Section 2, "Recognition is famously a passage from" what to what (4)?
(a) "Injustice to justice."
(b) "Ignorance to knowledge."
(c) "Blindness to hope."
(d) "Despair to hope."

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

4. When did Giovanni da Verrazzano land on Manhattan?
(a) 1602.
(b) 1502.
(c) 1524.
(d) 1559.

5. 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) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Arudhati Roy.
(d) Dipesh Chakrabarty.

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

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

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

9. Who wrote the seminal essay "The Climate of HIstory"?
(a) Arudhati Roy.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(d) Ian Hacking.

10. What movie does the author reference in Part 1, Section 1 as an illustration of the inanimate being revealed to be animate?
(a) Mummy.
(b) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
(c) Raiders of the Lost Ark.
(d) The Empire Strikes Back.

11. Who wrote, more than a quarter of a century ago, "We live in a post-natural world" (33)?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Bill McKibben.
(c) George Marshall.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

12. 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) 1/2.
(b) 4/5.
(c) 1/4.
(d) 3/4.

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

14. Along what river did the author's ancestors settle after their original village was flooded?
(a) The Muhuri River.
(b) The Meghna River.
(c) The Feni River.
(d) The Ganges River.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where in the Congo did a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in 1988?

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

3. Where did the author's forebearers resettle after the flooding of their first village?

4. Who is describd as the protagonist in Bon Bibir Johuranama?

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

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