The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
poetry

fiction

essays

political theory
2 Ghosh is from
Thailand

Morocco

The Philippines

India
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Dune

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Lord of the Rings

Star Wars
4 Ghosh's ancestors had to deal with
the mountains

the desert

the river

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

Human

Nonhuman

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

Nonfiction

Poetry

Literary fiction
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
humans

the gods

animals

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

makes climate change its subject too often

have the tools to deal with climate change

does not deal with climate change well
9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University?
A cyclone

A flood

Snow

An earthquake
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?
Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes poetry about it

He writes a short story about it

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

a focus on a central character

"fillers"

the strange and inexplicable
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
demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

the bourgeois

gradualism in science

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

ungovernable

dull

wild
15 What approach takes over in the sciences during modernity?
Gradualism

Vacillation

Catastrophism

Primitivism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
stupid

modern

worthy intellectual adversaries

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

Borges

Paz

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

Literary fiction

Poetry

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

The puma

The tiger

The cheetah
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?
Freud

Baudrillard

Barthes

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

panpsychism

object-oriented ontology

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

supernatural uncanny

Romantic uncanny

political 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
faultlines

the desert

the mountains

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

New York and Shanghai

Mumbai and Shanghai

New York and Paris

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