The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
essays

poetry

political theory

fiction
2 Ghosh is from
Morocco

Thailand

The Philippines

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

Star Wars

Lord of the Rings

Dune
4 Ghosh's ancestors had to deal with
the river

the desert

the mountains

the sea
5 Ghosh is interested in what kinds of presences?
Nonhuman

Ghostly

Human

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

Nonfiction

Ancient epics

Poetry
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
animals

weather

the gods

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

have the tools to deal with climate change

makes climate change its subject too often

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

A cyclone

A flood

An earthquake
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?
He writes an essay about it

He writes poetry about it

He writes a short story about it

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

the mundane

the strange and inexplicable

a focus on a central character
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with
the span of generations

the fantastical

exceptional moments

the everyday
13 Modern life was characterized by all the following except
a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

gradualism in science

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

the bourgeois
14 In modernity, Nature was seen as
moderate

wild

ungovernable

dull
15 What approach takes over in the sciences during modernity?
Gradualism

Vacillation

Catastrophism

Primitivism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
worthy intellectual adversaries

stupid

modern

unmodern
17 Which author does Ghosh reference as desiring to reproduce the world in its entirety?
Marquez

Allende

Borges

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

Youth fiction

Essays

Literary fiction
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

Freud

Derrida

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

animism

panpsychism

object-oriented ontology
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 Glass Palace

The Hungry Tide

The Shadow Lines

Sea of Poppies
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?
New York and Paris

New York and Shanghai

Mumbai and Shanghai

Mumbai and New York

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