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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. The author concludes Part 1, Section 14 with the following: "So, if for a moment, we were to take seriously the premise that I started with--that the Anthropocene has forced us to recognize that there are other, fully aware eyes looking over our shoulders--the the first question to present itself is this" (66). What is the question he poses next?
(a) "What is our place within Nature?"
(b) "What is the place for the nonhuman in the modern novel?"
(c) "What is our place in this society?"
(d) "What is the nonhuman being looking over us?"

2. Along what river did the author's parents live in their homeland?
(a) The Meghna River.
(b) The Feni River.
(c) The Padma River.
(d) The Ganges River.

3. When was Rajmohan's Wife written in English?
(a) The early 1860s.
(b) The late 1910s.
(c) The early 1920s.
(d) The early 1840s.

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

5. What prominent historian stated that probability is a "manner of conceiving the world constituted without our being aware of it" (16)?
(a) Franco Moretti.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Madame Bovary?

2. 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?

3. Who is described in Part 1, Section 3 as "one of the finest prose stylists of our time, she is passionate and deeply informed about climate change. Yet all her writings on these subjects are in various forms of nonfiction" (8)?

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

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

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

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

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

5. To what does the author attribute mankind's tendency toward living near bodies of water?

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

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

8. What are "fillers" and how do they apply to contemporary literature?

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

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

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