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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Section 5 - Part III, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was A River Called Titash published?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1956.

2. What author did Lionel Trilling famously dismiss as one who thought "like a social function, not a novelist" (79-80)?
(a) Franco Moretti.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) John Steinbeck.
(d) Ian Hacking.

3. Who wrote, "Twentieth-century art has tended to search itself rather than exterior reality for beauty of meaning or truth, a condition that entails a new relationship between the work of art, the world, the spectator, and the artist" (119)?
(a) Eduardo Kohn.
(b) Arudhati Roy.
(c) Bill McKibben.
(d) Roger Shattuck.

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

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?
(a) 6,000.
(b) 17,000.
(c) 12,000.
(d) 25,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. The death toll of the 1882 Bombay cyclone was said to be upward of what number, according to the initial articles examined by the author in Part 1, Section 10?

2. The first steam-powered vessel to operate in India was a dredger on what river?

3. Who wrote Paul et Virginie?

4. In what novel by the author does he describe a character experiencing the crossing of the Enterprise?

5. Who is the author of Rapture?

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