The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his

poetry

political theory

essays

fiction
2 Ghosh is from

Morocco

Thailand

India

The Philippines
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to

Star Wars

Dune

Lord of the Rings

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

the river

the sea

the desert

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

Nonhuman

Human

Alien

Ghostly
6 Where does climate change usually show up?

Nonfiction

Poetry

Ancient epics

Literary fiction
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?

An earthquake

A flood

Snow

A cyclone
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?

Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes a short story about it

He writes poetry about it

He writes an essay 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

exceptional moments

the span of generations

the fantastical

the everyday
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

wild

dull

ungovernable

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

Gradualism

Vacillation

Catastrophism

Primitivism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as

modern

worthy intellectual adversaries

stupid

unmodern
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 jaguar

The tiger

The puma
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?

Barthes

Derrida

Baudrillard

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

animism

Cartesian dualism

object-oriented ontology

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

political uncanny

supernatural 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

faultlines

the mountains

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

New York and Paris

Mumbai and Shanghai

Mumbai and New York

New York and Shanghai

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