1 Ghosh is most notable for his poetry political theory fiction essays 2 Ghosh is from India The Philippines Morocco Thailand 3 Ghosh begins with a reference to Dune Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Lord of the Rings Star Wars 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? Human Alien Nonhuman Ghostly 6 Where does climate change usually show up? Literary fiction Poetry Ancient epics Nonfiction 7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by the gods weather humans animals 8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not have the tools to deal with climate change makes climate change its subject too often does not deal with climate change well deal with climate change 9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University? Snow A flood An earthquake A cyclone 10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone? He writes an essay about it He writes poetry about it Nothing; it is not in his work He writes a short story about it 11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained "fillers" the mundane a focus on a central character the strange and inexplicable 12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with the everyday the fantastical the span of generations exceptional moments 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 the bourgeois gradualism in science 14 In modernity, Nature was seen as ungovernable wild moderate dull 15 What approach takes over in the sciences during modernity? Vacillation Primitivism Gradualism Catastrophism 16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as unmodern modern stupid worthy intellectual adversaries 17 Which author does Ghosh reference as desiring to reproduce the world in its entirety? Borges Allende Marquez Paz 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 jaguar The puma The cheetah 20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny? Freud Barthes Derrida Baudrillard 21 Other versions of the nonhuman include all the following except Cartesian dualism panpsychism object-oriented ontology animism 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 Glass Palace The Hungry Tide The Shadow Lines Sea of Poppies 24 Ghosh is surprised that humans locate their settlements so close to the sea faultlines the desert the mountains 25 What two cities are linked in their connection to Britain in the 1660s? New York and Shanghai New York and Paris Mumbai and New York Mumbai and Shanghai
