View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Rushdie’s fellow students died in school in Bombay?
(a) Jimmy King.
(b) Johnny Queen.
(c) Dave Prince.
(d) Mikey Knight.

2. Which of the following dystopian authors does Rushdie reference?
(a) Brown.
(b) Atwood.
(c) St. John Mandel.
(d) Dashner.

3. Whose translation of Don Quixote does Rushdie favor?
(a) Burton Raffel.
(b) JM Cohen.
(c) Edith Grossman.
(d) John Rutherford.

4. Which of the following does Rushdie observe received a Nobel Prize?
(a) Bob Dylan.
(b) Liu Xiaobo.
(c) Barack Obama.
(d) Seamus Heaney.

5. For what virtue does Rushdie commend Harold Pinter?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Chastity.
(c) Courtesy.
(d) Temperance.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Rushdie note having first read Slaughterhouse-Five?

2. In what decade does Rushdie posit the human population of India exceeded the divine?

3. Whom does Rushdie remark destroyed Philip Larkin’s diaries?

4. Which of the following authors does Rushdie note having read?

5. In what year does Rushdie note having first read Portnoy’s Complaint?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 157 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample