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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote the novel Solaris?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Bill McKibben.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) George Marshall.

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

4. Where was the author with his wife when Hurricane Sandy hit New York?
(a) Bali.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Goa.
(d) Iran.

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

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

7. Where does the author describe experiencing a cyclone that flooded a pond behind his house in Part 1, Section 2?
(a) Sythet.
(b) Chattogram.
(c) Cox's Bazar.
(d) Dhaka.

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

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

10. 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 1750s.
(b) The 1620s.
(c) The 1590s.
(d) The 1660s.

11. When was A River Called Titash published?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1969.

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

13. On what date did a flood without precedent in Mumbai's recorded history descend on the city, dumping 94.4 cm. of rain in 14 hours on the northern suburbs?
(a) July 26, 2005.
(b) November 3, 2015.
(c) June 4, 2011.
(d) September 6, 2014.

14. What organization did Paul Kingsnorth create as "a network of writers, artists, and thinkers who have stopped believing the stories our civilization tells itself" (8)?
(a) The White Elephant Project.
(b) The Blue Ridge Project.
(c) The Dark Mountain Project.
(d) The Green Tiger Project.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Storm Surge?

2. In what century were Mumbai, Chennai, New York, and Charleston founded?

3. When did King Charles II marry Catherine of Graganza?

4. Who wrote An Attempt to Develop the Law of Storms in 1828?

5. What does the folk epic of the Sundurbans, Bon Bibir Johuranama, translate to in English?

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