The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
poetry

political theory

fiction

essays
2 Ghosh is from
The Philippines

Morocco

Thailand

India
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Lord of the Rings

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Star Wars

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

the river

the desert

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

Human

Alien

Ghostly
6 Where does climate change usually show up?
Poetry

Literary fiction

Ancient epics

Nonfiction
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
humans

the gods

weather

animals
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?
A cyclone

A flood

Snow

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

Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes an essay about it

He writes poetry about it
11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained
"fillers"

a focus on a central character

the strange and inexplicable

the mundane
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with
the everyday

the fantastical

exceptional moments

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

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

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

wild

dull

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

Primitivism

Gradualism

Vacillation
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
modern

stupid

worthy intellectual adversaries

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

Allende

Borges

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

Youth fiction

Literary fiction

Essays
19 What creature lives in the Sundarbans and menaces the inhabitants?
The puma

The cheetah

The tiger

The jaguar
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?
Derrida

Barthes

Baudrillard

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

panpsychism

Cartesian dualism

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

political uncanny

Romantic uncanny

supernatural uncanny
23 Which novel of Ghosh's featured the Sundarbans?
The Glass Palace

The Hungry Tide

Sea of Poppies

The Shadow Lines
24 Ghosh is surprised that humans locate their settlements so close to
the mountains

the desert

the sea

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

New York and Paris

Mumbai and Shanghai

Mumbai and New York

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