The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his

fiction

political theory

essays

poetry
2 Ghosh is from

Morocco

India

Thailand

The Philippines
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to

Dune

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Lord of the Rings

Star Wars
4 Ghosh's ancestors had to deal with

the river

the desert

the mountains

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

Alien

Human

Ghostly

Nonhuman
6 Where does climate change usually show up?

Poetry

Ancient epics

Nonfiction

Literary fiction
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by

the gods

weather

humans

animals
8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not

deal with climate change

makes climate change its subject too often

have the tools to deal with climate change

does not deal with climate change well
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 poetry about it

Nothing; it is not in his work

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

the mundane

"fillers"

the strange and inexplicable

a focus on a central character
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with

the fantastical

exceptional moments

the span of generations

the everyday
13 Modern life was characterized by all the following except

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

the bourgeois

gradualism in science
14 In modernity, Nature was seen as

wild

moderate

dull

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

Catastrophism

Gradualism

Primitivism

Vacillation
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as

worthy intellectual adversaries

stupid

unmodern

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

Paz

Borges

Marquez

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

Essays

Youth fiction

Literary fiction

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

The cheetah

The puma

The tiger

The jaguar
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?

Derrida

Baudrillard

Barthes

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

panpsychism

Cartesian dualism

object-oriented ontology

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

Romantic uncanny

supernatural uncanny

religious uncanny

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

The Glass Palace

The Hungry Tide

Sea of Poppies

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

the sea

the mountains

the desert

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

Mumbai and Shanghai

New York and Paris

New York and Shanghai

Mumbai and New York

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