The Hungry Tide Quizzes

The Hungry Tide Quiz

1 What country is the novel set in?
India

United States

Bangladesh

Pakistan
2 When was Amitav Ghosh born?
1956

1928

1967

1940
3 Which poet is repeatedly referenced in Nirmal's writing?
William Butler Yeats

Edgar Allen Poe

Rainer Marie Rilke

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4 Who is Nilima's husband?
Fokir

Kanai

Horen

Nirmal
5 Where did Piya grow up?
Seattle

Miami

Sacramento

Boston
6 Where is Kanai from?
Mumbai

Lahore

The Sundarbans

New Delhi
7 What does Piya study?
Marine mammals

Philosophy

Monkeys

Psychology
8 What is the name of the Scottish man who set up a (temporarily) successful egalitarian society in the Sundarbans?
Sir Edward Lynch

Sir Michael MacCharles

Sir Peter Matthews

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

Fokir

Nirmal

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

Theory and practice

Death

Education and experience
11 What is Nirmal's political ideology?
Classical liberalism

Neoliberalism

Marxism

Anarchism
12 Who is the goddess who protects the Sundarbans?
Kali

Bon Bibi

Oladevi

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

A university

A grade school

A temple
14 When was the massacre that killed Kusum?
1992

1988

1979

2001
15 When was the book published?
2015

2000

2010

2005
16 Who does Piya plan to name her project after at the end of the novel?
Fokir

Moyna

Nilima

Tutul
17 Which is NOT a significant symbol in the novel?
The cyclone shelter

Tigers

Flowers

Gamchhas
18 Why do Nilima and Nirmal move to the Sundarbans?
Political persecution

A job

The weather

To be closer to their family
19 What is Kanai's occupation?
Translator and interpreter

Journalist

Politician

Doctor
20 Which example is a metaphor?
“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.”

"...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”
21 What is situational irony?
A contrast between what a speaker means and what they actually say

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

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

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

Snake

Tiger

Crocodile
23 Which adjective would Piya be least likely to use to describe herself?
Brave

Curious

Independent

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

Nilima

Nirmal and Kusum

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

In his 60s

In his 30s

In his 20s