The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
poetry

fiction

essays

political theory
2 Ghosh is from
India

Morocco

The Philippines

Thailand
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 mountains

the desert

the sea

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

Human

Ghostly

Alien
6 Where does climate change usually show up?
Nonfiction

Ancient epics

Literary fiction

Poetry
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
humans

the gods

weather

animals
8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not
does not deal with climate change well

have the tools to deal with climate change

makes climate change its subject too often

deal with climate change
9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University?
An earthquake

A cyclone

A flood

Snow
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"

the strange and inexplicable

the mundane

a focus on a central character
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with
the span of generations

the fantastical

exceptional moments

the everyday
13 Modern life was characterized by all the following except
demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

the bourgeois

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

gradualism in science
14 In modernity, Nature was seen as
dull

ungovernable

moderate

wild
15 What approach takes over in the sciences during modernity?
Catastrophism

Gradualism

Primitivism

Vacillation
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
worthy intellectual adversaries

stupid

modern

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

Allende

Marquez

Paz
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 puma

The jaguar
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?
Baudrillard

Freud

Derrida

Barthes
21 Other versions of the nonhuman include all the following except
animism

panpsychism

object-oriented ontology

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

Romantic uncanny

supernatural uncanny

religious uncanny
23 Which novel of Ghosh's featured the Sundarbans?
The Shadow Lines

Sea of Poppies

The Hungry Tide

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

the sea

the mountains

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

Mumbai and Shanghai

Mumbai and New York

New York and Shanghai

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