The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
essays

political theory

poetry

fiction
2 Ghosh is from
Morocco

Thailand

India

The Philippines
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Dune

Lord of the Rings

Star Wars

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
4 Ghosh's ancestors had to deal with
the river

the sea

the desert

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

Human

Nonhuman

Ghostly
6 Where does climate change usually show up?
Literary fiction

Nonfiction

Poetry

Ancient epics
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
weather

animals

humans

the gods
8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not
makes climate change its subject too often

have the tools to deal with climate change

deal with climate change

does not deal with climate change well
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 an essay about it

Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes a short story about it

He writes poetry about it
11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained
the strange and inexplicable

a focus on a central character

the mundane

"fillers"
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with
the everyday

the fantastical

exceptional moments

the span of generations
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

gradualism in science

the bourgeois
14 In modernity, Nature was seen as
ungovernable

dull

moderate

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

Gradualism

Primitivism

Vacillation
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
stupid

modern

unmodern

worthy intellectual adversaries
17 Which author does Ghosh reference as desiring to reproduce the world in its entirety?
Borges

Paz

Marquez

Allende
18 What genre does Ghosh say actually was better at dealing with improbable events?
Youth fiction

Literary fiction

Essays

Poetry
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?
Baudrillard

Derrida

Freud

Barthes
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

religious uncanny

Romantic uncanny

political 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 desert

faultlines

the mountains

the sea
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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