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
Star Wars

Lord of the Rings

Dune

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

the river

the sea

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

Alien

Nonhuman

Human
6 Where does climate change usually show up?
Poetry

Nonfiction

Ancient epics

Literary fiction
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
animals

humans

the gods

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

does not deal with climate change well

deal with climate change

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

An earthquake

Snow

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

Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes a short story about it

He writes an essay about it
11 Before the modern novel, fiction often contained
a focus on a central character

the mundane

"fillers"

the strange and inexplicable
12 The modern novel is mostly concerned with
the span of generations

exceptional moments

the everyday

the fantastical
13 Modern life was characterized by all the following except
demarcations of leisure vs work, private vs public

the bourgeois

a sense of Nature as wild and untameable

gradualism in science
14 In modernity, Nature was seen as
moderate

dull

wild

ungovernable
15 What approach takes over in the sciences during modernity?
Vacillation

Catastrophism

Primitivism

Gradualism
16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as
stupid

unmodern

worthy intellectual adversaries

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

Marquez

Paz

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

Poetry

Literary fiction

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

The puma

The tiger

The cheetah
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?
Freud

Derrida

Baudrillard

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

panpsychism

animism

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

religious uncanny

supernatural uncanny

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

The Glass Palace

The Hungry Tide

The Shadow Lines
24 Ghosh is surprised that humans locate their settlements so close to
the sea

the desert

the mountains

faultlines
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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