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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 is the primatologist that insisted on "the unity of all elements on the planet earth--living and non-living" (64)?
(a) Imanishi Kinji.
(b) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Dipesh Chakrabarty.

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

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

4. What shoreside town of the Nicobar Islands does the author describe having been reduced to its foundations after the tsunami in Part 1, Section 9?
(a) Malacca.
(b) Rangat.
(c) Arong.
(d) Tamaloo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Adam Sobel a professor of atmospheric science?

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

3. How many were killed by the cyclone that the author describes encountering in Delhi in Part 1, Section 5?

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

5. When did the great earthquake hit the Italian town of L'Aquila, according to the author in Part 1, Section 7?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Cartesian dualism?

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

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

6. How does Mumbai's infrastructure make it vulnerable to cyclones?

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

8. How is capitalism defined?

9. What does the author recall noting about New York as he flew into JFK in Part I, Section 9?

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

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