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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Continued.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of Hans Christian Andersen’s stories does Rushdie regard as his best?
(a) “The Tinder Box.”
(b) “The Shadow.”
(c) “The Snow Queen.”
(d) “The Little Mermaid.”

3. In what translation does Rushdie note having first read One Hundred Years of Solitude?
(a) Marie Boroff.
(b) Gregory Rabassa.
(c) JC Orozco.
(d) Aurelian Buendía.

4. Which of the following of Rushdie’s characters does he admit is autobiographical?
(a) Mian Abdullah.
(b) Sonny Ibrahim.
(c) Saleem Sinai.
(d) Aadam Aziz.

5. How many deaths does Rushdie attribute to Shahryar and Shah Zaman in total?
(a) 2,213.
(b) 3,214.
(c) 4,215.
(d) 1,212.

Short Answer Questions

1. With which of the following does “Introduction to The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. IV” begin?

2. What message does Vonnegut’s work assert is encoded in Stonehenge?

3. As which of the following does Rushdie explain Heraclitus’s idea of ethos?

4. How large an advance did Rushdie receive for his first published novel?

5. To which of the following is the anthology dedicated?

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