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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Sections 1 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states in Part 1, Section 2, "Recognition is famously a passage from" what to what (4)?
(a) "Injustice to justice."
(b) "Despair to hope."
(c) "Blindness to hope."
(d) "Ignorance to knowledge."

2. What literary theorist said "fillers function very much like the good manners so important in [Jane] Austen" (17)?
(a) Franco Moretti.
(b) Alfred Wegener.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What prominent historian stated that probability is a "manner of conceiving the world constituted without our being aware of it" (16)?

2. Who wrote the novel Solaris?

3. What movie does the author reference in Part 1, Section 1 as an illustration of the inanimate being revealed to be animate?

4. Who wrote, "Climate change is inherently uncanny: Weather conditions, and the high-carbon lifestyles that are changing them, are extremely familiar and yet have now been given a new menace and uncertainty" (30)?

5. What is the name of the tiger demon featured in Bon Bibir Johuranama?

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