The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his

political theory

essays

fiction

poetry
2 Ghosh is from

The Philippines

Morocco

India

Thailand
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to

Lord of the Rings

Star Wars

Dune

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
4 Ghosh's ancestors had to deal with

the desert

the mountains

the river

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

Alien

Ghostly

Human

Nonhuman
6 Where does climate change usually show up?

Poetry

Literary fiction

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

does not deal with climate change well

makes climate change its subject too often

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

A cyclone

An earthquake

A flood

Snow
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?

Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes an essay about it

He writes a short story about it

He writes poetry about it
11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained

"fillers"

a focus on a central character

the strange and inexplicable

the mundane
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with

the fantastical

the span of generations

the everyday

exceptional moments
13 Modern life was characterized by all the following except

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

gradualism in science

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

the bourgeois
14 In modernity, Nature was seen as

ungovernable

moderate

dull

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

Primitivism

Vacillation

Gradualism

Catastrophism
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?

Paz

Borges

Allende

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

Poetry

Essays

Literary fiction

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

The puma

The tiger

The jaguar

The cheetah
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?

Derrida

Baudrillard

Freud

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

panpsychism

object-oriented ontology

animism

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

supernatural uncanny

political uncanny

religious uncanny

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

The Hungry Tide

The Glass Palace

Sea of Poppies

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

the desert

the sea

faultlines

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

Mumbai and Shanghai

New York and Shanghai

Mumbai and New York

New York and Paris

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