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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. Who wrote the novel Solaris?
(a) George Marshall.
(b) Bill McKibben.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

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

3. What is the name of the tiger demon featured in Bon Bibir Johuranama?
(a) Lakshmi.
(b) Dukhey.
(c) Dokkhin Rai.
(d) Saraswati.

4. When was Rajmohan's Wife written in English?
(a) The early 1920s.
(b) The late 1910s.
(c) The early 1860s.
(d) The early 1840s.

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)?
(a) March 1999.
(b) June 2003.
(c) September 2000.
(d) May 2002.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Sacred Theory of the Earth (1690)?

2. What organization did Paul Kingsnorth create as "a network of writers, artists, and thinkers who have stopped believing the stories our civilization tells itself" (8)?

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

4. What does the folk epic of the Sundurbans, Bon Bibir Johuranama, translate to in English?

5. 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)?

(see the answer key)

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