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

India

Thailand

The Philippines

Morocco
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Dune

Lord of the Rings

Star Wars
4 Ghosh's ancestors had to deal with

the desert

the mountains

the sea

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

Nonhuman

Human

Ghostly

Alien
6 Where does climate change usually show up?

Literary fiction

Nonfiction

Ancient epics

Poetry
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by

animals

humans

weather

the gods
8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not

have the tools to deal with climate change

makes climate change its subject too often

deal with climate change

does not deal with climate change well
9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University?

An earthquake

A cyclone

A flood

Snow
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?

He writes an essay about it

Nothing; it is not in his work

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

the span of generations

the fantastical

exceptional moments
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

gradualism in science

the bourgeois
14 In modernity, Nature was seen as

ungovernable

moderate

dull

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

Vacillation

Primitivism

Gradualism

Catastrophism
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?

Allende

Paz

Marquez

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

Literary fiction

Youth fiction

Essays

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

The cheetah

The puma

The tiger

The jaguar
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?

Freud

Derrida

Baudrillard

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

animism

panpsychism

Cartesian dualism

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 Shadow Lines

Sea of Poppies

The Hungry Tide

The Glass Palace
24 Ghosh is surprised that humans locate their settlements so close to

faultlines

the mountains

the sea

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

Mumbai and New York

New York and Paris

New York and Shanghai

Mumbai and Shanghai

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