The Hungry Tide Quizzes

The Hungry Tide Quiz

1 What country is the novel set in?
India

Pakistan

Bangladesh

United States
2 When was Amitav Ghosh born?
1967

1940

1928

1956
3 Which poet is repeatedly referenced in Nirmal's writing?
Edgar Allen Poe

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Rainer Marie Rilke

William Butler Yeats
4 Who is Nilima's husband?
Nirmal

Horen

Fokir

Kanai
5 Where did Piya grow up?
Seattle

Boston

Miami

Sacramento
6 Where is Kanai from?
New Delhi

Mumbai

Lahore

The Sundarbans
7 What does Piya study?
Psychology

Philosophy

Monkeys

Marine mammals
8 What is the name of the Scottish man who set up a (temporarily) successful egalitarian society in the Sundarbans?
Sir Michael MacCharles

Sir Peter Matthews

Sir Edward Lynch

Sir Daniel Hamilton
9 Who did NOT know Kusum when she was alive?
Fokir

Nirmal

Piya

Kanai
10 What is NOT a main theme of the novel?
Language

Death

Education and experience

Theory and practice
11 What is Nirmal's political ideology?
Classical liberalism

Anarchism

Marxism

Neoliberalism
12 Who is the goddess who protects the Sundarbans?
Saraswati

Bon Bibi

Kali

Oladevi
13 What does Nilima create in the Sundarbans as her life's work?
A university

A hospital

A grade school

A temple
14 When was the massacre that killed Kusum?
1979

1992

1988

2001
15 When was the book published?
2000

2005

2010

2015
16 Who does Piya plan to name her project after at the end of the novel?
Nilima

Fokir

Tutul

Moyna
17 Which is NOT a significant symbol in the novel?
Gamchhas

Flowers

Tigers

The cyclone shelter
18 Why do Nilima and Nirmal move to the Sundarbans?
The weather

To be closer to their family

Political persecution

A job
19 What is Kanai's occupation?
Translator and interpreter

Journalist

Politician

Doctor
20 Which example is a metaphor?
"...speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being."

“The quiet was more like a fog or a mist, creeping in slowly, from a distance”

“And now, like some misplaced, misgendered Scheherezade, I am trying to stave the night off with a flying, fleeting pen…”

"She was like an orchid in a way, frail and beautiful and dependent on the love and labor of many, many people.”
21 What is situational irony?
A contrast between what a speaker means and what they actually say

When a character’s understanding of their situation contrasts with the reader’s knowledge of their situation

An occurrence at odds with the reader’s or audience’s expectation

None of these
22 What animal features as a significant symbol in the novel?
Snake

Crocodile

Lion

Tiger
23 Which adjective would Piya be least likely to use to describe herself?
Curious

Ambitious

Brave

Independent
24 Which character(s) is NOT alive for the main events of the novel?
Kusum

Nirmal and Kusum

Nirmal

Nilima
25 About how old is Kanai?
In his 40s

In his 60s

In his 20s

In his 30s