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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Adam Sobel a professor of atmospheric science?
(a) Howard University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Columbia University.

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

3. Who wrote Madame Bovary?
(a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(b) Stephen Jay Gould.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the destinies of New York and Mumbai become linked to the British Empire, according to the author in Part 1, Section 10?

2. What nuclear facility is located near Mumbai's urban limits?

3. Who wrote the seminal essay "The Climate of HIstory"?

4. On what night did the author read about a cataclysmic tsunami set off by a massive undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean, according to his narrative in Part 1, Section 9?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who wrote the novel A River Called Titash? What is it about?

2. What does the term "Anthropocene" refer to?

3. How are novels about climate change marginalized from mainstream literature, according to the author in Part I, Section 3?

4. What do beachfront locations symbolize, according to the author?

5. In what ways are Mumbai and New York similar?

6. Describe the city of Mumbai. Where is it located? What is its population?

7. Why is Bankim Chandra Chatterjee discussed in the narrative?

8. What did the author discover about the 1882 Mumbai cyclone?

9. What environmental event does the author describe in Part I, Section 5?

10. What does the author write about unpredictable events in literature?

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