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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Section 3 – 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author's novel The Glass Palace touches upon a place in Burma where oil had bubbled up to the surface. What is the name of the place?
(a) Dhaka.
(b) Sythet.
(c) Chattogram.
(d) Yenangyaung.

2. 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)?
(a) Roger Shattuck.
(b) Eduardo Kohn.
(c) Arudhati Roy.
(d) Bill McKibben.

3. What prominent historian stated that probability is a "manner of conceiving the world constituted without our being aware of it" (16)?
(a) Stanislaw Lem.
(b) Franco Moretti.
(c) Ian Hacking.
(d) Dipesh Chakrabarty.

4. When did Cyclone Storm Chapala hit the shores of Yemen?
(a) November 3, 2015.
(b) June 4, 2011.
(c) September 6, 2014.
(d) May 6, 2017.

5. How many were killed by the cyclone that the author describes encountering in Delhi in Part 1, Section 5?
(a) 22.
(b) 65.
(c) 30.
(d) 59.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the author doing as a part-time job while earning his MA at Delhi University?

2. What is the average population of the Greater Mumbai area today?

3. Who wrote, asking of England, "And was Jerusalem builded here, / Among these dark Satanic mills?" (69)?

4. Who wrote of coal mines, "the militancy that formed in these workplaces was typically an effort to defend this autonomy" (74)?

5. In what novel by the author does he describe a character experiencing the crossing of the Enterprise?

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