1 Ghosh is most notable for his fiction political theory essays poetry 2 Ghosh is from The Philippines Thailand Morocco India 3 Ghosh begins with a reference to Dune Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 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? Nonhuman Ghostly Alien Human 6 Where does climate change usually show up? Ancient epics Poetry Literary fiction Nonfiction 7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by animals humans the gods weather 8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not does not deal with climate change well deal with climate change makes climate change its subject too often have the tools to deal with climate change 9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University? An earthquake A cyclone A flood Snow 10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone? He writes poetry about it Nothing; it is not in his work He writes a short story about it He writes an essay about it 11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained the strange and inexplicable the mundane "fillers" a focus on a central character 12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with the everyday exceptional moments the span of generations the fantastical 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 moderate wild 15 What approach takes over in the sciences during modernity? Primitivism Gradualism Catastrophism Vacillation 16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as unmodern modern worthy intellectual adversaries stupid 17 Which author does Ghosh reference as desiring to reproduce the world in its entirety? Borges Allende Paz Marquez 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 puma The jaguar The tiger The cheetah 20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny? Freud Derrida Barthes Baudrillard 21 Other versions of the nonhuman include all the following except object-oriented ontology Cartesian dualism panpsychism animism 22 While the environmental uncanny seems to be persona non grata in modern novels, what is allowed? supernatural uncanny Romantic uncanny political uncanny religious uncanny 23 Which novel of Ghosh's featured the Sundarbans? Sea of Poppies The Shadow Lines The Glass Palace The Hungry Tide 24 Ghosh is surprised that humans locate their settlements so close to the desert faultlines the sea the mountains 25 What two cities are linked in their connection to Britain in the 1660s? Mumbai and Shanghai Mumbai and New York New York and Shanghai New York and Paris