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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. Who wrote Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Alfred Wegener.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Stephen Jay Gould.

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

3. What giant leap of nature likely led to the extinction of the dinosaurs?
(a) The Apophis asteroid.
(b) The Bennu asteroid.
(c) The Aglale asteroid.
(d) The Chicxulub asteroid.

4. 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) September 6, 2014.
(b) July 26, 2005.
(c) June 4, 2011.
(d) November 3, 2015.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Hurricane Catarina stike the coast of Brazil?

3. When was the city of Port Canning inaugurated with a grand ceremony?

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

5. When did the site of today's Mumbai first come under European rule when it was ceded to the Portuguese by the ruler of Gujarat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where are the Andaman and Nicobar Islands located and why did the author go there?

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

3. How is capitalism defined?

4. How does the climate crisis relate to the human imagination, according to the author in Part I, Section 4?

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

6. What is the central metaphor made by the author in Part I, Section 1?

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

8. What is the most important element of the word "recognition," according to the author in Part I, Section 2?

9. Who wrote The Hungry Tide and what is it about?

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

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