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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) 1,700.
(b) 1,200.
(c) 900.
(d) 500.

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

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

4. Who was the originator of the theory of continental drift?
(a) Alfred Wegener.
(b) Thomas Burnet.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

5. What is referred to in Part 1, Section 2 as the "great man-grove forest of the Bangal Delta" (5)?
(a) The Dhanmondis.
(b) The Bandharas.
(c) The Gulshans.
(d) The Sundarbans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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 Green Tiger Project.
(c) The Dark Mountain Project.
(d) The Blue Ridge Project.

13. According to the author in Part 1, Section 10, how many passengers does Mumbai's suburban railway network transport on weekdays?
(a) 3.4 million passengers.
(b) 7.5 million passengers.
(c) 1.9 million passengers.
(d) 6.6 million passengers.

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

15. The death toll of the 1882 Bombay cyclone was said to be upward of what number, according to the initial articles examined by the author in Part 1, Section 10?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 150,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 200,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. What neighborhoods of Long Island does the author describe looking out of on a flight into J.F.K. and thinking they were sure to be swamped in a storm surge in Part 1, Section 9?

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

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

5. The author states in Part 1, Section 4 that "the climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of" what (9)?

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