The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his

poetry

essays

political theory

fiction
2 Ghosh is from

Thailand

India

Morocco

The Philippines
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 sea

the desert

the mountains

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

Nonhuman

Ghostly

Alien

Human
6 Where does climate change usually show up?

Nonfiction

Poetry

Literary fiction

Ancient epics
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by

animals

the gods

weather

humans
8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not

have the tools to deal with climate change

does not deal with climate change well

makes climate change its subject too often

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

A cyclone

An earthquake

Snow

A flood
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?

He writes poetry about it

He writes a short story about it

Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes an essay about it
11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained

a focus on a central character

"fillers"

the strange and inexplicable

the mundane
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

gradualism in science

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

the bourgeois
14 In modernity, Nature was seen as

wild

dull

moderate

ungovernable
15 What approach takes over in the sciences during modernity?

Gradualism

Vacillation

Catastrophism

Primitivism
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?

Marquez

Borges

Allende

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

Literary fiction

Poetry

Youth fiction

Essays
19 What creature lives in the Sundarbans and menaces the inhabitants?

The jaguar

The tiger

The cheetah

The puma
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?

Derrida

Freud

Baudrillard

Barthes
21 Other versions of the nonhuman include all the following except

object-oriented ontology

panpsychism

Cartesian dualism

animism
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 Shadow Lines

The Hungry Tide

The Glass Palace
24 Ghosh is surprised that humans locate their settlements so close to

faultlines

the desert

the sea

the mountains
25 What two cities are linked in their connection to Britain in the 1660s?

Mumbai and New York

New York and Paris

New York and Shanghai

Mumbai and Shanghai

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