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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. On what night did the author read about a cataclysmic tsunami set off by a massive undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean, according to his narrative in Part 1, Section 9?
(a) July 2, 2005.
(b) December 25, 2004.
(c) September 3, 2001.
(d) March 2, 1975.

2. What is referred to in Part 1, Section 2 as the "great man-grove forest of the Bangal Delta" (5)?
(a) The Bandharas.
(b) The Gulshans.
(c) The Dhanmondis.
(d) The Sundarbans.

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

4. When did Rabindranath Tagore win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1842.

5. Who wrote Frankenstein?
(a) Ernest Gellner.
(b) Mary Shelley.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Stanislaw Lem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Madame Bovary?

2. What does "Weltliteratur" translate to in English?

3. Who wrote, "Twentieth-century art has tended to search itself rather than exterior reality for beauty of meaning or truth, a condition that entails a new relationship between the work of art, the world, the spectator, and the artist" (119)?

4. 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)?

5. 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?

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