The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
fiction

essays

political theory

poetry
2 Ghosh is from
Morocco

Thailand

India

The Philippines
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Star Wars

Lord of the Rings

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

the sea

the mountains

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

Ghostly

Alien

Nonhuman
6 Where does climate change usually show up?
Literary fiction

Ancient epics

Nonfiction

Poetry
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
weather

animals

the gods

humans
8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not
have the tools to deal with climate change

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 cyclone

An earthquake

A flood

Snow
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?
He writes an essay about it

He writes a short story about it

He writes poetry about it

Nothing; it is not in his work
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
exceptional moments

the span of generations

the everyday

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

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

gradualism in science

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public
14 In modernity, Nature was seen as
wild

moderate

ungovernable

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

Primitivism

Gradualism

Vacillation
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
modern

unmodern

stupid

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

Allende

Borges

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

Youth fiction

Poetry

Literary fiction
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

Baudrillard

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?
Romantic uncanny

religious uncanny

political uncanny

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

The Shadow Lines

The Glass Palace

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?
New York and Shanghai

Mumbai and New York

Mumbai and Shanghai

New York and Paris

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