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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. What neighborhoods of Long Island does the author describe looking out of on a flight into J.F.K. and thinking they were sure to be swamped in a storm surge in Part 1, Section 9?
(a) Bellerose Terrace and Long Island City.
(b) Astoria and Williamsburg.
(c) Far Rockaway and Long Beach.
(d) Hicksville and North Fork.

2. Who said, "Famine or no famine, Indians will breed like rabbits" (144)?
(a) Timothy Mitchell.
(b) Winston Churchill.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) John Maynard Keynes.

3. The Bengal Delta is formed by the confluence of what rivers?
(a) The Muhuri and the Padma.
(b) The Meghna and the Ganges.
(c) The Feni and the Ganges.
(d) The Ganges and the Brahmaputra.

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

5. The author states in the opening of Part 1, Section 16, "To ask how science fiction came to be demarcated from the literary mainstream is to summon another question" (68). What is the question that he poses?
(a) "Who makes the decisions of literary form?"
(b) "Who are the writers of this genre?"
(c) "What is in the nature of modernity that has led to this separation?"
(d) "What is the meaning of science fiction and what is its place in society?"

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who defines the "politics of the armed lifeboat" as "preparations for open-ended counter-insurgency, militarized borders, [and] aggressive anti-immigration policing" (143)?

3. Who "argues that one of the original impulses of modernity is the project of 'partitioning,' or deepening the imaginary gulf between Nature and Culture" (68)?

4. When does the author describe marching in a massive antiwar demonstration in New York in Part III, Section 2?

5. When did the Kosi River disaster in Bihar occur?

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