The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
poetry

essays

fiction

political theory
2 Ghosh is from
Morocco

India

Thailand

The Philippines
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Star Wars

Dune

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Lord of the Rings
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

Alien

Human

Ghostly
6 Where does climate change usually show up?
Nonfiction

Ancient epics

Poetry

Literary fiction
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
humans

weather

animals

the gods
8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not
makes climate change its subject too often

have the tools to deal with climate change

deal with climate change

does not deal with climate change well
9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University?
Snow

An earthquake

A flood

A cyclone
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
the strange and inexplicable

"fillers"

a focus on a central character

the mundane
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with
the span of generations

exceptional moments

the fantastical

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

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

the bourgeois

demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public
14 In modernity, Nature was seen as
wild

ungovernable

moderate

dull
15 What approach takes over in the sciences during modernity?
Primitivism

Vacillation

Gradualism

Catastrophism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
stupid

worthy intellectual adversaries

modern

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

Borges

Paz

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

Poetry

Essays

Literary fiction
19 What creature lives in the Sundarbans and menaces the inhabitants?
The puma

The cheetah

The jaguar

The tiger
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?
Barthes

Derrida

Baudrillard

Freud
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?
religious uncanny

political uncanny

supernatural uncanny

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

The Glass Palace

The Hungry Tide

Sea of Poppies
24 Ghosh is surprised that humans locate their settlements so close to
the sea

the mountains

the desert

faultlines
25 What two cities are linked in their connection to Britain in the 1660s?
New York and Shanghai

Mumbai and New York

New York and Paris

Mumbai and Shanghai

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