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

2. Who wrote the seminal essay "The Climate of HIstory"?
(a) Arudhati Roy.
(b) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Ian Hacking.

3. What literary theorist said "fillers function very much like the good manners so important in [Jane] Austen" (17)?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Franco Moretti.
(c) Alfred Wegener.
(d) Ian Hacking.

4. What nuclear facility is located near Mumbai's urban limits?
(a) The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, Tamil Nadu.
(b) The Bhabba Atomic Research Centre at Trombay.
(c) The Rajasthan Atomic Power Project.
(d) The Tarapur Nuclear Reactor, Maharashtra.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote, more than a quarter of a century ago, "We live in a post-natural world" (33)?

2. When was the movie made that is referenced in Part 1, Section 1?

3. What is the name of the tiger demon featured in Bon Bibir Johuranama?

4. How many people were killed when a great cloud of carbon monoxide burst forth in the Congo in 1988?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where are the author's ancestors from? What led to their relocation?

2. Describe the book Storm Surge. Who is its author and what is its premise?

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

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

5. Describe the events around Hurricane Katrina. When did it occur?

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

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

8. How did the tsunami invert the system of rank on the Nicobars?

9. What is the Dark Mountain Project and who formed it?

10. Describe how irony applies in the story about Henry Piddington.

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