The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his

essays

poetry

fiction

political theory
2 Ghosh is from

Thailand

Morocco

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 sea

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

Nonhuman

Ghostly

Human

Alien
6 Where does climate change usually show up?

Literary fiction

Ancient epics

Poetry

Nonfiction
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by

weather

humans

the gods

animals
8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not

does not deal with climate change well

makes climate change its subject too often

have the tools to deal with climate change

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

A flood

A cyclone

Snow

An earthquake
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?

He writes a short story about it

He writes an essay about it

He writes poetry about it

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

the mundane

"fillers"

the strange and inexplicable

a focus on a central character
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with

exceptional moments

the everyday

the fantastical

the span of generations
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

ungovernable

wild

dull

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

Vacillation

Primitivism

Gradualism

Catastrophism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as

modern

unmodern

stupid

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

Marquez

Paz

Borges

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

Youth fiction

Literary fiction

Poetry

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

The jaguar

The cheetah

The puma

The tiger
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?

Freud

Barthes

Baudrillard

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

Cartesian dualism

panpsychism

animism

object-oriented ontology
22 While the environmental uncanny seems to be persona non grata in modern novels, what is allowed?

religious uncanny

supernatural uncanny

Romantic uncanny

political uncanny
23 Which novel of Ghosh's featured the Sundarbans?

The Glass Palace

Sea of Poppies

The Hungry Tide

The Shadow Lines
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

Mumbai and Shanghai

New York and Shanghai

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