The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his

essays

fiction

political theory

poetry
2 Ghosh is from

The Philippines

Thailand

Morocco

India
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Lord of the Rings

Dune

Star Wars
4 Ghosh's ancestors had to deal with

the sea

the desert

the mountains

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

Nonhuman

Alien

Ghostly

Human
6 Where does climate change usually show up?

Literary fiction

Poetry

Nonfiction

Ancient epics
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by

humans

weather

the gods

animals
8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not

makes climate change its subject too often

deal with climate change

does not deal with climate change well

have the tools to deal with climate change
9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University?

A cyclone

Snow

An earthquake

A flood
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?

Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes an essay about it

He writes poetry about it

He writes a short story about it
11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained

the strange and inexplicable

the mundane

a focus on a central character

"fillers"
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

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

the bourgeois

gradualism in science
14 In modernity, Nature was seen as

dull

moderate

ungovernable

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

Catastrophism

Vacillation

Gradualism

Primitivism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as

modern

worthy intellectual adversaries

unmodern

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

Allende

Marquez

Paz

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

Poetry

Essays

Youth fiction

Literary fiction
19 What creature lives in the Sundarbans and menaces the inhabitants?

The tiger

The puma

The jaguar

The cheetah
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?

Derrida

Freud

Baudrillard

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

Cartesian dualism

animism

object-oriented ontology

panpsychism
22 While the environmental uncanny seems to be persona non grata in modern novels, what is allowed?

supernatural uncanny

religious uncanny

political uncanny

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

The Glass Palace

The Hungry Tide

Sea of Poppies

The Shadow Lines
24 Ghosh is surprised that humans locate their settlements so close to

the sea

the mountains

the desert

faultlines
25 What two cities are linked in their connection to Britain in the 1660s?

New York and Paris

Mumbai and New York

Mumbai and Shanghai

New York and Shanghai

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