1 Ghosh is most notable for his essays political theory fiction poetry 2 Ghosh is from The Philippines Morocco India Thailand 3 Ghosh begins with a reference to Star Wars Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dune Lord of the Rings 4 Ghosh's ancestors had to deal with the river the sea the mountains the desert 5 Ghosh is interested in what kinds of presences? Human Alien Nonhuman Ghostly 6 Where does climate change usually show up? Literary fiction Ancient epics Nonfiction Poetry 7 The Anthropocene is an era ruled by the gods weather animals humans 8 Ghosh laments that serious fiction does not makes climate change its subject too often deal with climate change have the tools to deal with climate change does not deal with climate change well 9 What does Ghosh experience while at Delhi University? Snow An earthquake A cyclone A flood 10 What does Ghosh do after the cyclone? He writes poetry about it He writes an essay about it Nothing; it is not in his work He writes a short story 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 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 ungovernable wild 15 What approach takes over in the sciences during modernity? Gradualism Primitivism Catastrophism Vacillation 16 Gradualists painted catastrophists as worthy intellectual adversaries unmodern modern stupid 17 Which author does Ghosh reference as desiring to reproduce the world in its entirety? Paz Borges Allende 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 jaguar The cheetah The tiger The puma 20 Which theorist articulated the uncanny? Baudrillard Freud Derrida Barthes 21 Other versions of the nonhuman include all the following except Cartesian dualism panpsychism animism object-oriented ontology 22 While the environmental uncanny seems to be persona non grata in modern novels, what is allowed? supernatural uncanny Romantic uncanny political uncanny religious uncanny 23 Which novel of Ghosh's featured the Sundarbans? Sea of Poppies The Hungry Tide The Shadow Lines The Glass Palace 24 Ghosh is surprised that humans locate their settlements so close to the desert faultlines the sea the mountains 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