The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
fiction

poetry

essays

political theory
2 Ghosh is from
The Philippines

India

Thailand

Morocco
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Lord of the Rings

Dune

Star Wars

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

the mountains

the river

the desert
5 Ghosh is interested in what kinds of presences?
Ghostly

Alien

Nonhuman

Human
6 Where does climate change usually show up?
Literary fiction

Nonfiction

Poetry

Ancient epics
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
weather

humans

the gods

animals
8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not
deal with climate change

does not deal with climate change well

have the tools to deal with climate change

makes climate change its subject too often
9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University?
An earthquake

Snow

A flood

A cyclone
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?
He writes poetry about it

He writes an essay about it

Nothing; it is not in his work

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

"fillers"

the mundane

a focus on a central character
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with
the fantastical

the everyday

the span of generations

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

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

the bourgeois

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable
14 In modernity, Nature was seen as
moderate

dull

ungovernable

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

Gradualism

Primitivism

Vacillation
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
worthy intellectual adversaries

unmodern

modern

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

Allende

Borges

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

Literary fiction

Youth fiction

Essays
19 What creature lives in the Sundarbans and menaces the inhabitants?
The cheetah

The puma

The jaguar

The tiger
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?
Barthes

Baudrillard

Freud

Derrida
21 Other versions of the nonhuman include all the following except
Cartesian dualism

object-oriented ontology

panpsychism

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

religious uncanny

political uncanny

supernatural uncanny
23 Which novel of Ghosh's featured the Sundarbans?
Sea of Poppies

The Shadow Lines

The Hungry Tide

The Glass Palace
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 Paris

New York and Shanghai

Mumbai and New York

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