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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. Who wrote Germinal?
(a) Emile Zola.
(b) Ian Hacking.
(c) Stanislaw Lem.
(d) Ernest Gellner.

2. Who was Mary Godwin's stepsister with whom Lord Byron had a brief affair in England?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Emma.
(c) Mary.
(d) Claire.

3. Where is Adam Sobel a professor of atmospheric science?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Howard University.
(d) Columbia University.

4. Along what river did the author's parents live in their homeland?
(a) The Feni River.
(b) The Meghna River.
(c) The Padma River.
(d) The Ganges River.

5. The author concludes Part 1, Section 14 with the following: "So, if for a moment, we were to take seriously the premise that I started with--that the Anthropocene has forced us to recognize that there are other, fully aware eyes looking over our shoulders--the the first question to present itself is this" (66). What is the question he poses next?
(a) "What is our place in this society?"
(b) "What is the place for the nonhuman in the modern novel?"
(c) "What is the nonhuman being looking over us?"
(d) "What is our place within Nature?"

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the author describe a descending hailstorm in north Delhi in the beginning of Part 1, Section 5?

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

3. When was the movie made that is referenced in Part 1, Section 1?

4. What nuclear facility is located near Mumbai's urban limits?

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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