The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his

poetry

political theory

essays

fiction
2 Ghosh is from

Thailand

The Philippines

Morocco

India
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to

Dune

Lord of the Rings

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Star Wars
4 Ghosh's ancestors had to deal with

the sea

the river

the desert

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

Alien

Ghostly

Human

Nonhuman
6 Where does climate change usually show up?

Literary fiction

Nonfiction

Ancient epics

Poetry
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by

weather

the gods

animals

humans
8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not

deal with climate change

have the tools to 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

Snow

A flood

An earthquake
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?

He writes poetry about it

He writes an essay about it

Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes a short story about it
11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained

"fillers"

a focus on a central character

the mundane

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

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

ungovernable

wild

moderate

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

Vacillation

Gradualism

Primitivism

Catastrophism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as

stupid

worthy intellectual adversaries

modern

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

Allende

Borges

Paz

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

Literary fiction

Essays

Youth fiction

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

The tiger

The cheetah

The jaguar

The puma
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?

Baudrillard

Barthes

Freud

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

panpsychism

animism

object-oriented ontology

Cartesian dualism
22 While the environmental uncanny seems to be persona non grata in modern novels, what is allowed?

religious uncanny

political uncanny

supernatural uncanny

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

Sea of Poppies

The Shadow Lines

The Hungry Tide

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

faultlines

the desert

the sea

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

New York and Paris

New York and Shanghai

Mumbai and Shanghai

Mumbai and New York

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