1 Ghosh is most notable for his fiction poetry essays political theory 2 Ghosh is from India Morocco The Philippines Thailand 3 Ghosh begins with a reference to Star Wars Lord of the Rings Dune Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 4 Ghosh's ancestors had to deal with the desert the river the sea the mountains 5 Ghosh is interested in what kinds of presences? Ghostly Human Alien Nonhuman 6 Where does climate change usually show up? Nonfiction Poetry Literary fiction Ancient epics 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 deal with climate change makes climate change its subject too often have the tools to deal with climate change 9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University? Snow A cyclone An earthquake A flood 10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone? He writes an essay about it He writes a short story about it Nothing; it is not in his work He writes poetry about it 11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained a focus on a central character "fillers" the mundane the strange and inexplicable 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 demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public 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? Vacillation Catastrophism Primitivism Gradualism 16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as modern stupid worthy intellectual adversaries unmodern 17 Which author does Ghosh reference as desiring to reproduce the world in its entirety? Borges Paz Allende Marquez 18 What genre does Ghosh say actually was better at dealing with improbable events? Essays Poetry Literary fiction Youth fiction 19 What creature lives in the Sundarbans and menaces the inhabitants? The puma The jaguar The tiger The cheetah 20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny? Barthes Freud Baudrillard Derrida 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? political uncanny religious uncanny supernatural uncanny Romantic uncanny 23 Which novel of Ghosh's featured the Sundarbans? The Shadow Lines Sea of Poppies The Glass Palace The Hungry Tide 24 Ghosh is surprised that humans locate their settlements so close to the desert the mountains the sea faultlines 25 What two cities are linked in their connection to Britain in the 1660s? Mumbai and Shanghai New York and Paris Mumbai and New York New York and Shanghai