1 Ghosh is most notable for his poetry political theory fiction essays 2 Ghosh is from The Philippines Morocco India 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 mountains the sea the desert the river 5 Ghosh is interested in what kinds of presences? Human Nonhuman Alien Ghostly 6 Where does climate change usually show up? Nonfiction Poetry Ancient epics Literary fiction 7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by humans the gods weather animals 8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not does not deal with climate change well makes climate change its subject too often have the tools to deal with climate change deal with climate change 9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University? A flood A cyclone Snow An earthquake 10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone? He writes an essay about it He writes a short story about it He writes poetry about it Nothing; it is not in his work 11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained a focus on a central character "fillers" the strange and inexplicable the mundane 12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with the fantastical the span of generations exceptional moments the everyday 13 Modern life was characterized by all the following except the bourgeois demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public a sense of Nature as wild and untameable 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 Gradualism Primitivism 16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as worthy intellectual adversaries modern stupid 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 Literary fiction Youth fiction Poetry 19 What creature lives in the Sundarbans and menaces the inhabitants? The cheetah The tiger The jaguar The puma 20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny? Derrida Freud Barthes Baudrillard 21 Other versions of the nonhuman include all the following except panpsychism animism object-oriented ontology Cartesian dualism 22 While the environmental uncanny seems to be persona non grata in modern novels, what is allowed? political uncanny Romantic uncanny supernatural uncanny religious 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 desert the sea 25 What two cities are linked in their connection to Britain in the 1660s? New York and Paris Mumbai and New York New York and Shanghai Mumbai and Shanghai
