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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Section 5 - Part III, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the author describe experiencing a cyclone that flooded a pond behind his house in Part 1, Section 2?
(a) Cox's Bazar.
(b) Chattogram.
(c) Dhaka.
(d) Sythet.

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

3. Who is described in Part 1, Section 3 as "one of the finest prose stylists of our time, she is passionate and deeply informed about climate change. Yet all her writings on these subjects are in various forms of nonfiction" (8)?
(a) Dipesh Chakrabarty.
(b) Arudhati Roy.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Ian Hacking.

4. Where is Mount Tambora in relation to Bali?
(a) 200 kilometers east.
(b) 400 kilometers east.
(c) 300 kilometers east.
(d) 100 kilometers east.

5. What word from the book refers to the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history, as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time?
(a) Zeitgeist.
(b) Corrolation.
(c) Inundation.
(d) Sythet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Circle of Reason?

2. Who wrote of the genres of science fiction and speculative fiction that they "all draw from the same deep well: those imagined other worlds located somewhere apart from our everyday one..." (72)?

3. 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?

4. When was the city of Port Canning inaugurated with a grand ceremony?

5. The author asserts in Part II, Section 8, "Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon" what (108)?

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