The Great Derangement Quizzes

The Great Derangement Quiz 1

1 Ghosh is most notable for his
essays

fiction

poetry

political theory
2 Ghosh is from
Morocco

Thailand

India

The Philippines
3 Ghosh begins with a reference to
Dune

Lord of the Rings

Star Wars

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

the river

the mountains

the sea
5 Ghosh is interested in what kinds of presences?
Nonhuman

Human

Alien

Ghostly
6 Where does climate change usually show up?
Ancient epics

Poetry

Literary fiction

Nonfiction
7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by
weather

humans

animals

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

does not deal with climate change well

have the tools to deal with climate change

deal with climate change
9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University?
An earthquake

A cyclone

A flood

Snow
10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone?
He writes an essay about it

He writes poetry about it

Nothing; it is not in his work

He writes a short story about it
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 everyday

the span of generations

the fantastical

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
ungovernable

wild

moderate

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

Vacillation

Catastrophism

Gradualism
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?
Paz

Marquez

Borges

Allende
18 What genre does Ghosh say actually was better at dealing with improbable events?
Poetry

Essays

Literary fiction

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

The jaguar

The puma

The cheetah
20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny?
Barthes

Derrida

Freud

Baudrillard
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?
supernatural uncanny

Romantic uncanny

religious uncanny

political uncanny
23 Which novel of Ghosh's featured the Sundarbans?
The Glass Palace

Sea of Poppies

The Shadow Lines

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

the sea

the desert

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

New York and Shanghai

Mumbai and New York

Mumbai and Shanghai

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