The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
fiction

political theory

poetry

essays
2 Ghosh is from
Morocco

The Philippines

Thailand

India
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Star Wars

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Lord of the Rings

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

the sea

the mountains

the desert
5 Ghosh is interested in what kinds of presences?
Human

Nonhuman

Ghostly

Alien
6 Where does climate change usually show up?
Ancient epics

Nonfiction

Poetry

Literary fiction
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
animals

weather

humans

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

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?
An earthquake

A cyclone

Snow

A flood
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?
He writes an essay about it

He writes poetry about it

He writes a short story about it

Nothing; it is not in his work
11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained
a focus on a central character

the strange and inexplicable

the mundane

"fillers"
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with
exceptional moments

the fantastical

the span of generations

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

gradualism in science

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

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

wild

ungovernable

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

Primitivism

Gradualism

Vacillation
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?
Borges

Marquez

Allende

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 puma

The tiger

The cheetah

The jaguar
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?
Barthes

Baudrillard

Freud

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

panpsychism

Cartesian dualism

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

supernatural uncanny

political uncanny

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

The Glass Palace

The Shadow Lines

The Hungry Tide
24 Ghosh is surprised that humans locate their settlements so close to
the sea

the desert

the mountains

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

Mumbai and New York

New York and Paris

Mumbai and Shanghai

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