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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Section 3 – 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the author doing as a part-time job while earning his MA at Delhi University?
(a) He worked as a book editor.
(b) He worked as a tutor.
(c) He worked as a journalist.
(d) He worked as a librarian.

2. The author states in Part II, Section 1, "If Bruno Latour is right, then to be modern is to envision time as" what (123)?
(a) "Functioning."
(b) "Reversable."
(c) "Irreversable."
(d) "Constant."

3. Who announced in 1964, "The humanist intellectual is, essentially, an expert on the written world" (84)?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Ernest Gellner.
(c) Franco Moretti.
(d) Ian Hacking.

4. In the First Opium War, armored steamships led by one named what, played a decisive role?
(a) The Empire.
(b) The Cloud.
(c) The Pegasus.
(d) The Nemesis.

5. When was The Hungry Tide published?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2006.
(d) 2004.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1991, a cyclone in Bangladesh resulted in 138,000 people dead. What percentage of them were women?

2. What John Sayles's film is praised by the author in Part I, Section 17?

3. Who wrote The Circle of Reason?

4. Who is describd as the protagonist in Bon Bibir Johuranama?

5. When did the author write the note: "I do believe it to be true that the land here is demonstrably alive; that it does not exist solely, or even incidentally, as a stage for the enactment of human history; that it is [itself] a protagonist" (6)?

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