The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his

fiction

poetry

essays

political theory
2 Ghosh is from

Thailand

The Philippines

India

Morocco
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to

Dune

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Star Wars

Lord of the Rings
4 Ghosh's ancestors had to deal with

the desert

the mountains

the river

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

Alien

Ghostly

Human

Nonhuman
6 Where does climate change usually show up?

Nonfiction

Poetry

Literary fiction

Ancient epics
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by

weather

the gods

humans

animals
8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not

does not deal with climate change well

have the tools to deal with climate change

makes climate change its subject too often

deal with climate change
9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University?

A flood

A cyclone

An earthquake

Snow
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

the strange and inexplicable

the mundane

a focus on a central character

"fillers"
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

dull

moderate

ungovernable

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

Gradualism

Primitivism

Catastrophism

Vacillation
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as

worthy intellectual adversaries

stupid

unmodern

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

Borges

Marquez

Paz

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

Poetry

Literary fiction

Essays

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

The puma

The jaguar

The cheetah

The tiger
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?

Barthes

Freud

Baudrillard

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

panpsychism

animism

Cartesian dualism

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

supernatural uncanny

Romantic uncanny

political uncanny

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

The Glass Palace

Sea of Poppies

The Hungry Tide

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

the desert

the mountains

faultlines

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

New York and Paris

Mumbai and New York

Mumbai and Shanghai

New York and Shanghai

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