The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
political theory

poetry

fiction

essays
2 Ghosh is from
Morocco

India

The Philippines

Thailand
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 mountains

the desert

the sea

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

Nonhuman

Alien

Human
6 Where does climate change usually show up?
Poetry

Ancient epics

Nonfiction

Literary fiction
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
weather

humans

the gods

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

have the tools to deal with climate change

makes climate change its subject too often

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

A cyclone

An earthquake

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

He writes a short story about it

He writes poetry about it

He writes an essay about it
11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained
the strange and inexplicable

a focus on a central character

the mundane

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

the fantastical

the span of generations

exceptional moments
13 Modern life was characterized by all the following except
the bourgeois

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

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

moderate

wild

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

Catastrophism

Gradualism

Vacillation
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
unmodern

stupid

worthy intellectual adversaries

modern
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

Poetry

Youth fiction

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

The cheetah

The tiger

The puma
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?
Baudrillard

Derrida

Freud

Barthes
21 Other versions of the nonhuman include all the following except
panpsychism

Cartesian dualism

animism

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

supernatural uncanny

political uncanny

Romantic uncanny
23 Which novel of Ghosh's featured the Sundarbans?
The Hungry Tide

The Glass Palace

The Shadow Lines

Sea of Poppies
24 Ghosh is surprised that humans locate their settlements so close to
the desert

faultlines

the mountains

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

New York and Paris

Mumbai and New York

New York and Shanghai

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