The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
political theory

fiction

poetry

essays
2 Ghosh is from
Morocco

The Philippines

India

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

Dune

Star Wars

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

the river

the desert

the mountains
5 Ghosh is interested in what kinds of presences?
Alien

Ghostly

Human

Nonhuman
6 Where does climate change usually show up?
Nonfiction

Literary fiction

Poetry

Ancient epics
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
weather

the gods

humans

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

have the tools to deal with climate change

does not deal with climate change well

makes climate change its subject too often
9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University?
A cyclone

Snow

A flood

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

He writes poetry about it

He writes an essay about it

Nothing; it is not in his work
11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained
"fillers"

the strange and inexplicable

a focus on a central character

the mundane
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
a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

the bourgeois

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

moderate

ungovernable

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

Gradualism

Vacillation

Primitivism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
stupid

unmodern

worthy intellectual adversaries

modern
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?
Poetry

Essays

Literary fiction

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

The puma

The tiger

The jaguar
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?
Freud

Barthes

Derrida

Baudrillard
21 Other versions of the nonhuman include all the following except
Cartesian dualism

object-oriented ontology

animism

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

political uncanny

Romantic uncanny

supernatural 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 sea

the mountains

faultlines
25 What two cities are linked in their connection to Britain in the 1660s?
Mumbai and Shanghai

New York and Shanghai

Mumbai and New York

New York and Paris

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