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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is the Owen fracture zone located?
(a) Off the coast of Dubai.
(b) Off the coast of Oman.
(c) Off the coast of Somalia.
(d) Off the coast of Jeddah.

3. Who wrote "Surely Descartes never saw an ape" (64)?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Ovid.
(c) Linnaeus.
(d) Dipesh Chakrabarty.

4. How many people were injured by the cyclone that the author encountered while in Delhi?
(a) 600.
(b) 800.
(c) 700.
(d) 500.

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

6. How did the tsunami's actions respond to the system of military rank in how it hit the Nicobar Islands?
(a) It inverted it.
(b) It suppressed it.
(c) It retained it.
(d) It extended it.

7. 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) September 2000.
(b) March 1999.
(c) May 2002.
(d) June 2003.

8. In what century were Mumbai, Chennai, New York, and Charleston founded?
(a) The 16th century.
(b) The 17th century.
(c) The 16th century.
(d) The 18th century.

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

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

11. What literary theorist said "fillers function very much like the good manners so important in [Jane] Austen" (17)?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Alfred Wegener.
(c) Franco Moretti.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

12. Who wrote Storm Surge?
(a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) Adam Sobel.
(d) Dipesh Chakrabarty.

13. Who is describd as the protagonist in Bon Bibir Johuranama?
(a) Saraswati.
(b) Narayan.
(c) Dokkhin Rai.
(d) Dukhey.

14. What was the first year that the Arabian Sea was known to have generated more storms than the Bay of Bengal?
(a) 2019.
(b) 2001.
(c) 2015.
(d) 2011.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle?

2. What was the author doing as a part-time job while earning his MA at Delhi University?

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

4. What is referred to in Part 1, Section 2 as the "great man-grove forest of the Bangal Delta" (5)?

5. What much-admired historical novel by Paul Kingsnorth is referenced in Part 1, Section 3?

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