1 Ghosh is most notable for his fiction political theory essays poetry 2 Ghosh is from Thailand Morocco India The Philippines 3 Ghosh begins with a reference to Star Wars Lord of the Rings Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dune 4 Ghosh's ancestors had to deal with the mountains the sea the river the desert 5 Ghosh is interested in what kinds of presences? Alien Human Ghostly Nonhuman 6 Where does climate change usually show up? Literary fiction Ancient epics Nonfiction Poetry 7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by humans animals 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 deal with climate change does not deal with climate change well 9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University? An earthquake Snow A cyclone A flood 10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone? He writes a short story about it He writes poetry 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 the strange and inexplicable the mundane "fillers" 12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with the span of generations the everyday exceptional moments the fantastical 13 Modern life was characterized by all the following except demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public gradualism in science a sense of Nature as wild and untameable the bourgeois 14 In modernity, Nature was seen as wild moderate dull ungovernable 15 What approach takes over in the sciences during modernity? Gradualism Catastrophism Vacillation Primitivism 16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as modern stupid unmodern 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? Poetry Essays Literary fiction Youth fiction 19 What creature lives in the Sundarbans and menaces the inhabitants? The cheetah The jaguar The tiger The puma 20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny? Freud Derrida Barthes 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? political uncanny religious uncanny Romantic uncanny supernatural uncanny 23 Which novel of Ghosh's featured the Sundarbans? The Hungry Tide The Glass Palace Sea of Poppies 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 Paris Mumbai and Shanghai Mumbai and New York New York and Shanghai