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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. In what novel by the author does he describe a character experiencing the crossing of the Enterprise?
(a) Flood of Fire.
(b) The Hungry Tide.
(c) The Shadow Lines.
(d) Sea of Poppies.

2. What anthropologist wrote How Forests Think?
(a) Ian Hacking.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Eduardo Kohn.
(d) Franco Moretti.

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

4. When was Mumbai's earliest recorded encounter with a powerful storm?
(a) September 2, 1659.
(b) May 4, 1599.
(c) June 12, 1593.
(d) May 15, 1618.

5. At whose behest were a number of wildlife sanctuaries established in the Burmese kingdom from the 1850s onward?
(a) King Ashoka's.
(b) King Amah's.
(c) King Mindon's.
(d) King Akbar's.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the tsunami's actions respond to the system of military rank in how it hit the Nicobar Islands?

3. What is the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird?

4. The author states in the opening of Part 1, Section 16, "To ask how science fiction came to be demarcated from the literary mainstream is to summon another question" (68). What is the question that he poses?

5. The word "moral" comes from a Latin root signifying what?

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