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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is the system of the Owen fracture zone?
(a) 1,000 kilometers.
(b) 500 kilometers.
(c) 800 kilometers.
(d) 200 kilometers.

2. When did Cyclone Storm Chapala hit the shores of Yemen?
(a) September 6, 2014.
(b) November 3, 2015.
(c) May 6, 2017.
(d) June 4, 2011.

3. What word used in the text refers to a proposed geological epoch dating from the commencent of significant human impact on the Earth's geology and ecosystems?
(a) Holocene.
(b) Furongian Epoch.
(c) Anthropocene.
(d) Mesozoic.

4. 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)?
(a) John Milton.
(b) George Marshall.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

5. 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 our place within Nature?"
(d) "What is the place for the nonhuman in the modern novel?"

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

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

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

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

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

11. Who wrote Sacred Theory of the Earth (1690)?
(a) Thomas Burnet.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Alfred Wegener.

12. 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?
(a) Astoria and Williamsburg.
(b) Hicksville and North Fork.
(c) Bellerose Terrace and Long Island City.
(d) Far Rockaway and Long Beach.

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

14. Where was the author's first stop on his article about the effects of the tsunami on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Part 1, Section 9?
(a) Port Sumi.
(b) Port Blair.
(c) Port Osney.
(d) Gopalpur.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Matla River translate to in English?

2. When was Rajmohan's Wife written in English?

3. Who wrote Storm Surge?

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

5. When was The Hungry Tide published?

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