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

The Philippines

Morocco

Thailand
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Star Wars

Lord of the Rings

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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

the mountains

the desert

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

Nonhuman

Alien

Human
6 Where does climate change usually show up?
Nonfiction

Literary fiction

Ancient epics

Poetry
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
the gods

weather

humans

animals
8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not
makes climate change its subject too often

does not deal with climate change well

deal with climate change

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

Snow

A cyclone

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

Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes a short story about it

He writes an essay about it
11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained
the mundane

the strange and inexplicable

a focus on a central character

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

the span of generations

the everyday

the fantastical
13 Modern life was characterized by all the following except
a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

gradualism in science

the bourgeois

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

wild

ungovernable

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

Gradualism

Vacillation

Primitivism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
stupid

modern

unmodern

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

Paz

Marquez

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

Literary fiction

Essays

Youth fiction
19 What creature lives in the Sundarbans and menaces the inhabitants?
The tiger

The jaguar

The puma

The cheetah
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?
Derrida

Freud

Barthes

Baudrillard
21 Other versions of the nonhuman include all the following except
object-oriented ontology

Cartesian dualism

animism

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

political uncanny

religious uncanny

supernatural 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
faultlines

the sea

the desert

the mountains
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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