The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
fiction

poetry

political theory

essays
2 Ghosh is from
Thailand

Morocco

The Philippines

India
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Lord of the Rings

Dune

Star Wars

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

the mountains

the sea

the desert
5 Ghosh is interested in what kinds of presences?
Nonhuman

Human

Alien

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

Poetry

Ancient epics

Nonfiction
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
humans

the gods

animals

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

makes climate change its subject too often

does not deal with climate change well

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

An earthquake

A flood

A cyclone
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?
He writes a short story about it

He writes an essay 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
the fantastical

the everyday

exceptional moments

the span of generations
13 Modern life was characterized by all the following except
demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

the bourgeois

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

wild

dull

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

Vacillation

Primitivism

Gradualism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
stupid

unmodern

modern

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

Borges

Marquez

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

Youth fiction

Poetry

Essays
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?
Derrida

Freud

Barthes

Baudrillard
21 Other versions of the nonhuman include all the following except
object-oriented ontology

animism

panpsychism

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

political uncanny

Romantic uncanny

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

The Glass Palace

The Shadow Lines

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

faultlines

the desert

the mountains
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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