The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
essays

fiction

poetry

political theory
2 Ghosh is from
India

Thailand

Morocco

The Philippines
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Dune

Star Wars

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Lord of the Rings
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

Nonhuman

Ghostly

Human
6 Where does climate change usually show up?
Poetry

Literary fiction

Ancient epics

Nonfiction
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
weather

animals

humans

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

does not deal with climate change well

makes climate change its subject too often

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

Snow

A cyclone

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

He writes an essay about it

He writes poetry about it

Nothing; it is not in his work
11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained
the mundane

a focus on a central character

"fillers"

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

exceptional moments

the everyday

the fantastical
13 Modern life was characterized by all the following except
gradualism in science

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

the bourgeois

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

ungovernable

dull

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

Catastrophism

Gradualism

Vacillation
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
worthy intellectual adversaries

unmodern

stupid

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

Paz

Allende

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

Poetry

Essays

Youth fiction
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?
Freud

Baudrillard

Derrida

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

panpsychism

animism

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

religious uncanny

supernatural uncanny

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

The Hungry Tide

The Shadow Lines

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

faultlines

the mountains

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

Mumbai and New York

Mumbai and Shanghai

New York and Paris

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