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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 described in Part 1, Section 6 as "a nineteenth-century Bengali writer and critic who self-consciously adopted the project of carving out fo a space in which realist European-style fiction could be written in the vernacular languages of India" (17)?
(a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(b) Franco Moretti.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Alfred Wegener.

2. The author states in Part 1, Section 4 that "the climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of" what (9)?
(a) "The arts."
(b) "Politics."
(c) "The imagination."
(d) "Power."

3. When did King Charles II marry Catherine of Graganza?
(a) 1673.
(b) 1701.
(c) 1692.
(d) 1661.

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

5. What much-admired historical novel by Paul Kingsnorth is referenced in Part 1, Section 3?
(a) The Wake.
(b) The Glass Room.
(c) The Flood.
(d) The Falling Tide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prominent historian stated that probability is a "manner of conceiving the world constituted without our being aware of it" (16)?

2. When did Hurricane Sandy hit New York?

3. When did Giovanni da Verrazzano land on Manhattan?

4. How did the tsunami's actions respond to the system of military rank in how it hit the Nicobar Islands?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Cartesian dualism?

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

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

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

5. What is the significance of the flood described in Part I, Section 2?

6. Describe the fallout from Hurricane Sandy. When did it develop?

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

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

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

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

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