ID the book
“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
a) The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
b) Babel by RF Kuang
c) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
d) Katabasis by RF Kuang
e) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
b) Babel by RF Kuang
"You have the face of a Swedish minimalist brand's one token Asian model."
a) Gulliver (hinge)
b) Olivia (ex)
c) Darius (ex)
d) Elodie (Hinge)
a) Gulliver
What is the official religion of China?
a) Christianity
b) Buddhism
c) Confucianism
d) Atheism
e) None of the above
d) Atheism
Which of the following groups of individuals are considered the architects of modern social science?
a) Elizabeth Perez, Anne Carson, and Maggie Kilgour
b) Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, and Max Weber
c) Clifford Geertz, Milan Kundera, and Edward Burnett Tylor
d) Marcel Mauss, Emile Durkheim, and Clifford Geertz
b) Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, and Max Weber
“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always."
a) Second Place by Rachel Cusk
b) My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
c) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
d) Circe by Madeline Miller
e) Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
c) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
"I need you to stop being a nerd. Stop saying pipeline, stop throwing models around, and just be human for a second."
a) Lars Iversen (my primary supervisory)
b) Vincent Fugere (committee member)
c) Fred Guichard (committee member & the first prof i ever worked with)
d) Zofia Taranu (my cosupervisor)
e) Brian Leung (the devil)
c) Fred Guichard
What is typical of a Northeastern Chinese dialect?
a) Flatter tones
b) More tones
c) Adding an 'r' sound
d) Dropping verbs
e) None of the above
c) Adding an 'r' sound
Which of the following is NOT a real data distribution?
a) Tweedie
b) Poisson
c) Skellam
d) Wrapped Cauchy
e) Juno
f) Negative Binomial
e) Juno
“I realised that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unravelled, a text to be interpreted, and that if ever we discover the Knowledge, then it will be as if the Value has been wrested from the House and all that remains will be mere scenery.”
a) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
b) Dead End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto
c) The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen
d) The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
e) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
a) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
With no lead-up or context. "You should prepare yourself to go to China with me."
a) Zofia Taranu (my cosupervisor)
b) Benjamin Wong Blonder (a collaborator)
c) Lars Iversen (my supervisor)
d) Fred Guichard (committee member)
e) Wenyuan Zhang (my friend who is now a prof in China)
c) Lars Iversen (my supervisor)
In which part of China is the Russian ruble accepted as official currency?
a) Beijing
b) Suifenhe
c) Harbin
d) Xi'an
e) Yunnan
b) Suifenhe
What is the PRIMARY assumption made in functional biogeography?
a) Trait-environment relationships are univariate and unidirectional
b) Intraspecific variation > Interspecific variation
c) Intraspecific variation < Interspecific variation
e) Environmental filtering is the strongest determinant of functional composition
f) Functional responses are relatively fast
b) Intraspecific variation < Interspecific variation
“I want to swallow you, have you melt into me and flow through my veins.”
a) From Communion to Cannibalism by Maggie Kilgour
b) Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
c) The Vegetarian by Han Kang
d) A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
e) Some Destiel fanfiction I wrote in high school
c) The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Which of the following professors started prof-student affair rumors because he would ask me to stay after class, close the door, turn off the lights, and then grill me on stats?
a) Richard Roy
b) Sidney Trudeau
c) Jon Sakata
d) Fred Guichard
e) None of the above
c) Jon Sakata
Which of the following is NOT a crime in China?
a) Using superstitious beliefs to undermine the implementation of the law
b) Reincarnating without state permission
c) Interference in the freedom of marriage
d) Participating in organizations that spread heterodox teachings
e) All of the above are crimes
f) None of the above are crimes
e) All of the above are crimes
Which of the following most closely matches Max Weber's definition of religion?
a) A unified system of beliefs and practices relative to the sacred
b) A set of beliefs and practices
c) A system of symbols that give the conception of order and factuality
d) A system of beliefs that center deity worship and involve a congregation of worshippers
e) None of the above
b) A set of beliefs and practices
“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.”
a) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
b) The Secret History by Donna Tartt
c) The White Book by Han Kang
d) The Vegetarian by Han Kang
e) Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
b) The Secret History by Donna Tartt
"You want me to put your wallet where? This is not good. That's not good... That's really not good. You're really not good."
a) Molly Gautreau
b) Jennifer Pham
c) Grace Fedirchuk
d) Lars Iversen
e) None of the above
b) Jennifer Pham
Which of the following is NOT a principle of the 'Mandate of Heaven'?
a) A legitimate ruler is always of noble birth
b) A successful revolt is evidence that a ruler has lost the Mandate of Heaven
c) The Mandate of Heaven is contingent on the just and able performance of the ruler
d) A ruler under the Mandate of Heaven is considered a universal monarch that rules all lands under heaven
e) None of the above
a) A legitimate ruler is always of noble birth
Many ecological communities lag behind contemporary environmental change, resulting in communities composed of species that are ecologically mismatched to observed environmental conditions. This quantifiable mismatch is known as 'environmental disequilibrium'. Which of the following relationships between the community and the environment related to disequilibrium should be the most common in nature? Assume a community ecology perspective.
a) Chaos
b) Stochastic
c) Memory effects
d) Constant lag
e) Equilibrium
f) Steady orbit
c) Memory effects