The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
political theory

poetry

essays

fiction
2 Ghosh is from
The Philippines

Thailand

Morocco

India
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Star Wars

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Lord of the Rings

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

the mountains

the desert

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

Human

Ghostly

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

Poetry

Nonfiction

Literary fiction
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
animals

humans

the gods

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

A cyclone

An earthquake

A flood
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?
He writes poetry about it

He writes an essay about it

Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes a short story about it
11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained
"fillers"

the strange and inexplicable

the mundane

a focus on a central character
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with
the fantastical

exceptional moments

the span of generations

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

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

the bourgeois

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable
14 In modernity, Nature was seen as
ungovernable

moderate

dull

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

Primitivism

Catastrophism

Gradualism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
unmodern

worthy intellectual adversaries

modern

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

Marquez

Borges

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

Essays

Youth fiction

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

The tiger

The jaguar

The puma
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?
Derrida

Barthes

Baudrillard

Freud
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?
political uncanny

supernatural uncanny

Romantic uncanny

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

Sea of Poppies

The Glass Palace

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

faultlines

the sea

the desert
25 What two cities are linked in their connection to Britain in the 1660s?
New York and Shanghai

New York and Paris

Mumbai and Shanghai

Mumbai and New York

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