The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his

political theory

poetry

essays

fiction
2 Ghosh is from

India

Thailand

Morocco

The Philippines
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to

Star Wars

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Dune

Lord of the Rings
4 Ghosh's ancestors had to deal with

the mountains

the desert

the river

the sea
5 Ghosh is interested in what kinds of presences?

Ghostly

Nonhuman

Alien

Human
6 Where does climate change usually show up?

Literary fiction

Poetry

Nonfiction

Ancient epics
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by

weather

humans

the gods

animals
8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not

have the tools to deal with climate change

does not deal with climate change well

deal with climate change

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

A cyclone

An earthquake

A flood

Snow
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?

He writes an essay about it

He writes a short story about it

Nothing; it is not in his work

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

"fillers"

the mundane

a focus on a central character

the strange and inexplicable
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with

the everyday

exceptional moments

the fantastical

the span of generations
13 Modern life was characterized by all the following except

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

the bourgeois

gradualism in science

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public
14 In modernity, Nature was seen as

wild

dull

ungovernable

moderate
15 What approach takes over in the sciences during modernity?

Gradualism

Primitivism

Vacillation

Catastrophism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as

modern

stupid

worthy intellectual adversaries

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

Paz

Marquez

Allende

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

Youth fiction

Essays

Literary fiction

Poetry
19 What creature lives in the Sundarbans and menaces the inhabitants?

The puma

The cheetah

The jaguar

The tiger
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?

Freud

Barthes

Baudrillard

Derrida
21 Other versions of the nonhuman include all the following except

panpsychism

animism

Cartesian dualism

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

political uncanny

supernatural uncanny

religious uncanny

Romantic uncanny
23 Which novel of Ghosh's featured the Sundarbans?

The Hungry Tide

Sea of Poppies

The Glass Palace

The Shadow Lines
24 Ghosh is surprised that humans locate their settlements so close to

faultlines

the mountains

the desert

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

Mumbai and New York

Mumbai and Shanghai

New York and Shanghai

New York and Paris

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