The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
fiction

essays

political theory

poetry
2 Ghosh is from
Morocco

The Philippines

Thailand

India
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Star Wars

Lord of the Rings

Dune

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
4 Ghosh's ancestors had to deal with
the mountains

the river

the sea

the desert
5 Ghosh is interested in what kinds of presences?
Nonhuman

Ghostly

Alien

Human
6 Where does climate change usually show up?
Ancient epics

Poetry

Literary fiction

Nonfiction
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
humans

animals

weather

the gods
8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not
have the tools to deal with climate change

deal with climate change

does not deal with climate change well

makes climate change its subject too often
9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University?
A cyclone

A flood

Snow

An earthquake
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?
Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes an essay about it

He writes a short story about it

He writes poetry about it
11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained
the strange and inexplicable

"fillers"

a focus on a central character

the mundane
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with
the span of generations

the fantastical

the everyday

exceptional moments
13 Modern life was characterized by all the following except
gradualism in science

the bourgeois

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable
14 In modernity, Nature was seen as
dull

moderate

wild

ungovernable
15 What approach takes over in the sciences during modernity?
Primitivism

Vacillation

Gradualism

Catastrophism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
unmodern

stupid

modern

worthy intellectual adversaries
17 Which author does Ghosh reference as desiring to reproduce the world in its entirety?
Borges

Marquez

Allende

Paz
18 What genre does Ghosh say actually was better at dealing with improbable events?
Poetry

Essays

Literary fiction

Youth fiction
19 What creature lives in the Sundarbans and menaces the inhabitants?
The jaguar

The cheetah

The tiger

The puma
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?
Baudrillard

Derrida

Freud

Barthes
21 Other versions of the nonhuman include all the following except
animism

Cartesian dualism

panpsychism

object-oriented ontology
22 While the environmental uncanny seems to be persona non grata in modern novels, what is allowed?
Romantic uncanny

supernatural uncanny

political uncanny

religious uncanny
23 Which novel of Ghosh's featured the Sundarbans?
Sea of Poppies

The Hungry Tide

The Shadow Lines

The Glass Palace
24 Ghosh is surprised that humans locate their settlements so close to
the mountains

faultlines

the desert

the sea
25 What two cities are linked in their connection to Britain in the 1660s?
Mumbai and Shanghai

New York and Paris

Mumbai and New York

New York and Shanghai

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