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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. What prominent historian stated that probability is a "manner of conceiving the world constituted without our being aware of it" (16)?
(a) Franco Moretti.
(b) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

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)?
(a) Franco Moretti.
(b) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Alfred Wegener.

3. When was the movie made that is referenced in Part 1, Section 1?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1980.

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

5. How many were killed by the cyclone that the author describes encountering in Delhi in Part 1, Section 5?
(a) 65.
(b) 59.
(c) 22.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the author with his wife when Hurricane Sandy hit New York?

2. When did the great river that bordered the author's parents' homeland suddenly change course, drowning the village?

3. When was The Hungry Tide published?

4. When did the site of today's Mumbai first come under European rule when it was ceded to the Portuguese by the ruler of Gujarat?

5. Who is the primatologist that insisted on "the unity of all elements on the planet earth--living and non-living" (64)?

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