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

Morocco

India

The Philippines

Thailand
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to

Dune

Star Wars

Lord of the Rings

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

the desert

the river

the mountains

the sea
5 Ghosh is interested in what kinds of presences?

Ghostly

Human

Alien

Nonhuman
6 Where does climate change usually show up?

Literary fiction

Nonfiction

Ancient epics

Poetry
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by

the gods

humans

animals

weather
8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not

have the tools to deal with climate change

does not deal with climate change well

deal with climate change

makes climate change its subject too often
9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University?

A flood

Snow

An earthquake

A cyclone
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?

He writes an essay about it

He writes a short story about it

Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes poetry 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 span of generations

the everyday

exceptional moments

the fantastical
13 Modern life was characterized by all the following except

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

gradualism in science

the bourgeois

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

wild

ungovernable

moderate

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

Vacillation

Primitivism

Catastrophism

Gradualism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as

modern

stupid

unmodern

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

Allende

Marquez

Borges

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

Literary fiction

Poetry

Youth fiction

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

The cheetah

The jaguar

The tiger

The puma
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?

Barthes

Derrida

Baudrillard

Freud
21 Other versions of the nonhuman include all the following except

Cartesian dualism

object-oriented ontology

panpsychism

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

political uncanny

supernatural uncanny

Romantic uncanny

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

The Shadow Lines

Sea of Poppies

The Glass Palace

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

the mountains

the sea

faultlines

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

Mumbai and New York

New York and Shanghai

New York and Paris

Mumbai and Shanghai

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