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‘A fascinating and seductive writer’
	-------The Times

The wait is finally over: This June Penguin publishes the most eagerly anticipated fiction title of the year—master storyteller Amitav Ghosh’s new novel Sea of Poppies. A masterpiece from one of the world’s finest novelists, Sea of Poppies is the extraordinary first book in Ghosh’s magnum opus, the Ibis Trilogy. Before you pick up your copy of the book, test your knowledge of Amitav Ghosh’s works with this special quiz.

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1. Which was Amitav Ghosh’s last novel before Sea of Poppies?
a) The Glass Palace
b) The Hungry Tide
c) The Shadow Lines
d) The Circle of Reason

2. Amitav Ghosh's novel The Circle of Reason opens with the arrival of which child?
a) Alu
b) Kaddu
c) Tamatar
d) Gobi

3. Which of these novels by Amitav Ghosh deals with the story of a Bengali family torn apart by the 1947 partition of India?
a) The Circle of Reason
b) The Shadow Lines
c) The Hungry Tide
d) The Glass Palace

4. Amitav Ghosh’s Countdown was written as a response to which event?
a) Demolition of Babri Masjid
b) Bombay riots
c) Kargil war
d) Nuclear testing by India and Pakistan

5. Which of these books is not a work of non-fiction?
a) Countdown
b) The Calcutta Chromosome
c) In an Antique Land
d) The Imam and the Indian

6. Which award did Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome win?
a) Arthur C. Clarke Award
b) Hutch Crossword Award
c) Sahitya Akademi Award
d) Pushcart Prize

7. On the cover of which book by Amitav Ghosh is it written ‘History in the guise of a traveller's tale’?
a) The Calcutta Chromosome
b) The Hungry Tide
c) The Circle of Reason
d) In An Antique Land

8. The story of Ghosh's Sea of Poppies is set just before which war?
a) World War I
b) Opium War
c) Boer War
d) Crimean War

9. What is the name of the ship on board which most of the action of Sea of Poppies takes place?
a) Heron
b) Ibis
c) Parrot
d) Peacock

10. Which narcotic plays a key role in the narrative of Sea of Poppies?
a) Marijuana
b) Heroin
c) Opium
d) Cocaine

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