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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. 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) Arong.
(c) Rangat.
(d) Tamaloo.

2. In what century were Mumbai, Chennai, New York, and Charleston founded?
(a) The 16th century.
(b) The 18th century.
(c) The 16th century.
(d) The 17th century.

3. What does the folk epic of the Sundurbans, Bon Bibir Johuranama, translate to in English?
(a) The Death of Bon Bibi.
(b) The Miracles of Bon Bibi.
(c) The Journey of Bon Bibi.
(d) The Damnation of Bon Bibi.

4. Who wrote An Attempt to Develop the Law of Storms in 1828?
(a) Colonel Henry Reid.
(b) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Dipesh Chakrabarty.

5. What word used in the text refers to a proposed geological epoch dating from the commencent of significant human impact on the Earth's geology and ecosystems?
(a) Furongian Epoch.
(b) Mesozoic.
(c) Holocene.
(d) Anthropocene.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Giovanni da Verrazzano land on Manhattan?

2. Where was the author's first stop on his article about the effects of the tsunami on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Part 1, Section 9?

3. What was the first year that the Arabian Sea was known to have generated more storms than the Bay of Bengal?

4. When was The Hungry Tide published?

5. Between 1998 and 2001, three cyclones crashed into the Indian subcontinent to the north of Mumbai. Approximately how many people were killed in these events?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How is the setting of the Sundarbans described in Part I, Section 2?

6. What is Cartesian dualism?

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

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

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

10. Why does the author reference "The Climate of History" in Part I, Section 4? Who wrote this essay?

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