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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the tiger demon featured in Bon Bibir Johuranama?
(a) Saraswati.
(b) Dokkhin Rai.
(c) Lakshmi.
(d) Dukhey.

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

3. Who was the nineteenth-century expert on Mumbai that the author turned to for assistance in finding out about the 1882 Bombay cyclone?
(a) Murali Ranganathan.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(d) Dipesh Chakrabarty.

4. 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 Damnation of Bon Bibi.
(d) The Journey of Bon Bibi.

5. Who wrote, "Climate change is inherently uncanny: Weather conditions, and the high-carbon lifestyles that are changing them, are extremely familiar and yet have now been given a new menace and uncertainty" (30)?
(a) John Milton.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) George Marshall.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

6. What was the author doing as a part-time job while earning his MA at Delhi University?
(a) He worked as a tutor.
(b) He worked as a book editor.
(c) He worked as a journalist.
(d) He worked as a librarian.

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

8. How long is the system of the Owen fracture zone?
(a) 200 kilometers.
(b) 800 kilometers.
(c) 500 kilometers.
(d) 1,000 kilometers.

9. What term from Norse mythology meaning "great winter" is used in Part 1, Section 12?
(a) Ixbewinter.
(b) Codowintre.
(c) Intuwintre.
(d) Fimbulwinter.

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

11. Who wrote Madame Bovary?
(a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Stephen Jay Gould.

12. When was The Hungry Tide published?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2006.
(d) 2009.

13. What movie does the author reference in Part 1, Section 1 as an illustration of the inanimate being revealed to be animate?
(a) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
(b) Mummy.
(c) The Empire Strikes Back.
(d) Raiders of the Lost Ark.

14. Who wrote the novel Solaris?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) George Marshall.
(c) Bill McKibben.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

15. The author states in Part 1, Section 10 that the city of Mumbai's health infrastructure was intended to cater to a population what times its size?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 3/4.
(c) 4/5.
(d) 1/4.

Short Answer Questions

1. What much-admired historical novel by Paul Kingsnorth is referenced in Part 1, Section 3?

2. What storm was generated in the Arabian Sea in 2007, noted as its strongest storm ever?

3. What giant leap of nature likely led to the extinction of the dinosaurs?

4. The author states in Part 1, Section 2, "Recognition is famously a passage from" what to what (4)?

5. When was the city of Port Canning inaugurated with a grand ceremony?

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