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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. When did the Kosi River disaster in Bihar occur?
(a) 2002.
(b) 2001.
(c) 2008.
(d) 2010.

2. When did Rabindranath Tagore win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1842.

3. Where is Mrauk-U located?
(a) Burma.
(b) Thailand.
(c) Bangladesh.
(d) Sri Lanka.

4. When did Mount Tambora erupt, creating the greatest volcanic eruption in recorded history?
(a) April 5, 1846.
(b) April 5, 1892.
(c) April 5, 1815.
(d) April 5, 1802.

5. Who wrote the novel War and Peace?
(a) Franco Moretti.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the author of The Malay Archipleago?

2. What is the title and focus of Part II?

3. The Bengal Delta is formed by the confluence of what rivers?

4. The story The Vampyre was based on what vampyric aristocrat?

5. The 1971 Bhola Cyclone is thought to have killed how many people?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Bernadin de Saint-Pierre and why is he discussed?

2. What was the Registry Act?

3. How is "climate fiction" defined and who are some of the authors of this genre discussed in the book?

4. Why is Moby Dick discussed in the book? Who wrote this novel?

5. How does the author describe the motivations for the push for oil consumption over coal in Part I, Section 17?

6. What is noted from the manual Classic of the Waterways of Sichuan in Part II, Section 5?

7. Who wrote the sonnet "The World is Too Much With Us" and why does the author discuss it in the book?

8. What was the first steam-powered vessel to operate in India and how is it described?

9. What determined the shape of the global carbon economy, according to the author in Part II, Section 8?

10. Who wrote The Glass Palace and what is it about?

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