The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
political theory

fiction

poetry

essays
2 Ghosh is from
Morocco

Thailand

India

The Philippines
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Star Wars

Lord of the Rings

Dune

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
4 Ghosh's ancestors had to deal with
the river

the desert

the sea

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

Alien

Ghostly

Nonhuman
6 Where does climate change usually show up?
Poetry

Literary fiction

Nonfiction

Ancient epics
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
weather

humans

the gods

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

deal with climate change

makes climate change its subject too often

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

A flood

An earthquake

Snow
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
a focus on a central character

the mundane

the strange and inexplicable

"fillers"
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with
the fantastical

the everyday

exceptional moments

the span of generations
13 Modern life was characterized by all the following except
the bourgeois

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

gradualism in science

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

moderate

wild

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

Gradualism

Vacillation

Catastrophism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
unmodern

worthy intellectual adversaries

modern

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

Marquez

Borges

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

Youth fiction

Essays

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

The jaguar

The puma

The tiger
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?
Baudrillard

Barthes

Freud

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

animism

panpsychism

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

political uncanny

supernatural uncanny

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

The Glass Palace

The Hungry Tide

Sea of Poppies
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 New York

Mumbai and Shanghai

New York and Paris

New York and Shanghai

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