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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Section 15 - Part II, Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote of coal mines, "the militancy that formed in these workplaces was typically an effort to defend this autonomy" (74)?
(a) Timothy Mitchell.
(b) Stanislaw Lem.
(c) Franco Moretti.
(d) Ian Hacking.

2. The 1971 Bhola Cyclone is thought to have killed how many people?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 150,000.
(c) 300,000.
(d) 100,000.

3. When was the city of Port Canning inaugurated with a grand ceremony?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1826.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1864.

4. What giant leap of nature likely led to the extinction of the dinosaurs?
(a) The Apophis asteroid.
(b) The Bennu asteroid.
(c) The Chicxulub asteroid.
(d) The Aglale asteroid.

5. Who wrote, asking of England, "And was Jerusalem builded here, / Among these dark Satanic mills?" (69)?
(a) William Blake.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Ernest Gellner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the author doing as a part-time job while earning his MA at Delhi University?

2. Who was Lord Byron accompanied by when he moved to Geneva?

3. When did the destinies of New York and Mumbai become linked to the British Empire, according to the author in Part 1, Section 10?

4. What is referred to in Part 1, Section 2 as the "great man-grove forest of the Bangal Delta" (5)?

5. Where were the author's parents originally from?

(see the answer key)

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