The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
essays

political theory

poetry

fiction
2 Ghosh is from
Thailand

The Philippines

India

Morocco
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Star Wars

Lord of the Rings

Dune

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

Alien

Human

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

Poetry

Nonfiction

Literary fiction
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
the gods

animals

humans

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

makes climate change its subject too often

have the tools to deal with climate change

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

A cyclone

A flood

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

He writes a short story about it

Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes poetry about it
11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained
a focus on a central character

"fillers"

the mundane

the strange and inexplicable
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with
the everyday

the span of generations

the fantastical

exceptional moments
13 Modern life was characterized by all the following except
gradualism in science

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

the bourgeois
14 In modernity, Nature was seen as
dull

ungovernable

wild

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

Gradualism

Primitivism

Vacillation
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
worthy intellectual adversaries

unmodern

modern

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

Marquez

Allende

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

Essays

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?
Derrida

Baudrillard

Freud

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

Cartesian dualism

animism

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

Romantic uncanny

supernatural uncanny

political uncanny
23 Which novel of Ghosh's featured the Sundarbans?
The Shadow Lines

Sea of Poppies

The Glass Palace

The Hungry Tide
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?
New York and Shanghai

Mumbai and New York

Mumbai and Shanghai

New York and Paris

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