The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
essays

fiction

political theory

poetry
2 Ghosh is from
India

Thailand

Morocco

The Philippines
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Lord of the Rings

Star Wars

Dune

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

the desert

the river

the mountains
5 Ghosh is interested in what kinds of presences?
Alien

Human

Ghostly

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

Literary fiction

Poetry

Nonfiction
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
humans

the gods

animals

weather
8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not
does not deal with climate change well

have the tools to deal with climate change

makes climate change its subject too often

deal with climate change
9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University?
A cyclone

Snow

An earthquake

A flood
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?
He writes a short story about it

Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes an essay about it

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

a focus on a central character

the mundane

"fillers"
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with
the everyday

the fantastical

exceptional moments

the span of generations
13 Modern life was characterized by all the following except
demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

the bourgeois

gradualism in science
14 In modernity, Nature was seen as
dull

wild

moderate

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

Vacillation

Gradualism

Catastrophism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
unmodern

stupid

worthy intellectual adversaries

modern
17 Which author does Ghosh reference as desiring to reproduce the world in its entirety?
Paz

Allende

Borges

Marquez
18 What genre does Ghosh say actually was better at dealing with improbable events?
Literary fiction

Essays

Poetry

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

The tiger

The puma

The cheetah
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?
Barthes

Baudrillard

Derrida

Freud
21 Other versions of the nonhuman include all the following except
Cartesian dualism

animism

panpsychism

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

religious uncanny

Romantic uncanny

supernatural uncanny
23 Which novel of Ghosh's featured the Sundarbans?
The Shadow Lines

The Glass Palace

Sea of Poppies

The Hungry Tide
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

Mumbai and New York

New York and Paris

New York and Shanghai

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