The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
fiction

poetry

essays

political theory
2 Ghosh is from
Thailand

Morocco

India

The Philippines
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Lord of the Rings

Star Wars

Dune
4 Ghosh's ancestors had to deal with
the desert

the mountains

the sea

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

Nonhuman

Ghostly

Human
6 Where does climate change usually show up?
Nonfiction

Literary fiction

Poetry

Ancient epics
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
weather

animals

humans

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

have the tools to deal with climate change

makes climate change its subject too often

does not deal with climate change well
9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University?
Snow

A cyclone

A flood

An earthquake
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?
He writes an essay about it

Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes poetry about it

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

a focus on a central character

"fillers"

the mundane
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with
exceptional moments

the fantastical

the everyday

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

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

gradualism in science

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

ungovernable

moderate

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

Gradualism

Vacillation

Catastrophism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
modern

unmodern

stupid

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

Borges

Marquez

Paz
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 tiger

The cheetah

The puma

The jaguar
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?
Barthes

Baudrillard

Freud

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

object-oriented ontology

animism

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

religious uncanny

political uncanny

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

The Glass Palace

The Hungry Tide

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

the desert

faultlines

the mountains
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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