The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
political theory

poetry

fiction

essays
2 Ghosh is from
India

Thailand

Morocco

The Philippines
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Dune

Lord of the Rings

Star Wars
4 Ghosh's ancestors had to deal with
the mountains

the river

the sea

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

Nonhuman

Alien

Human
6 Where does climate change usually show up?
Nonfiction

Poetry

Ancient epics

Literary fiction
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
humans

weather

animals

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

does not deal with climate change well

makes climate change its subject too often

have the tools to deal with climate change
9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University?
A cyclone

Snow

An earthquake

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

He writes a short story about it

Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes an essay about it
11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained
the mundane

a focus on a central character

the strange and inexplicable

"fillers"
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
the bourgeois

gradualism in science

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

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

wild

ungovernable

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

Vacillation

Primitivism

Gradualism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
unmodern

modern

stupid

worthy intellectual adversaries
17 Which author does Ghosh reference as desiring to reproduce the world in its entirety?
Marquez

Paz

Allende

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

Essays

Poetry

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

The cheetah

The puma

The jaguar
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?
Baudrillard

Derrida

Barthes

Freud
21 Other versions of the nonhuman include all the following except
object-oriented ontology

animism

Cartesian dualism

panpsychism
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?
The Shadow Lines

Sea of Poppies

The Glass Palace

The Hungry Tide
24 Ghosh is surprised that humans locate their settlements so close to
the desert

the mountains

the sea

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

Mumbai and Shanghai

New York and Shanghai

New York and Paris

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