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

2. How many people were injured by the cyclone that the author encountered while in Delhi?
(a) 700.
(b) 600.
(c) 800.
(d) 500.

3. What movie does the author reference in Part 1, Section 1 as an illustration of the inanimate being revealed to be animate?
(a) Raiders of the Lost Ark.
(b) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
(c) Mummy.
(d) The Empire Strikes Back.

4. When did Hurricane Sandy hit New York?
(a) 2016.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2012.
(d) 2005.

5. When does the author describe a descending hailstorm in north Delhi in the beginning of Part 1, Section 5?
(a) March 12, 1982.
(b) March 17, 1978.
(c) September 5, 2018.
(d) June 12, 1975.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What much-admired historical novel by Paul Kingsnorth is referenced in Part 1, Section 3?

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

4. What literary theorist said "fillers function very much like the good manners so important in [Jane] Austen" (17)?

5. Who wrote the novel Solaris?

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