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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Sections 9 -14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the author describe experiencing a cyclone that flooded a pond behind his house in Part 1, Section 2?
(a) Chattogram.
(b) Sythet.
(c) Dhaka.
(d) Cox's Bazar.

2. What word used in the text refers to a proposed geological epoch dating from the commencent of significant human impact on the Earth's geology and ecosystems?
(a) Anthropocene.
(b) Holocene.
(c) Furongian Epoch.
(d) Mesozoic.

3. Who was the originator of the theory of continental drift?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Alfred Wegener.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Thomas Burnet.

4. Where did the author's forebearers resettle after the flooding of their first village?
(a) Pataukhali.
(b) Dhaka.
(c) Sythet.
(d) Bihar.

5. The author concludes Part 1, Section 14 with the following: "So, if for a moment, we were to take seriously the premise that I started with--that the Anthropocene has forced us to recognize that there are other, fully aware eyes looking over our shoulders--the the first question to present itself is this" (66). What is the question he poses next?
(a) "What is the nonhuman being looking over us?"
(b) "What is our place within Nature?"
(c) "What is our place in this society?"
(d) "What is the place for the nonhuman in the modern novel?"

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Matla River translate to in English?

2. Who is described in Part 1, Section 6 as "a nineteenth-century Bengali writer and critic who self-consciously adopted the project of carving out fo a space in which realist European-style fiction could be written in the vernacular languages of India" (17)?

3. Where was the author's first stop on his article about the effects of the tsunami on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Part 1, Section 9?

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

5. Who wrote the novel Solaris?

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