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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four and Back Matter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With which of the following does Part One end?
(a) “And in our age of oversimplification, this beautiful complication has never been more important.”
(b) “Happy Commencement Day.”
(c) “I am proud to receive an award named for Harold Pinter, a great writer, a great citizen, and a great friend in need.”
(d) “…once you have found your wings, you fly.”

2. Which of the following does Rushdie call “The first great writer I knew” (158)?
(a) Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
(b) Mir Taqi Mir.
(c) Mirza Ghalib.
(d) Ahmad Faraz.

3. How large an advance did Rushdie receive for his first published novel?
(a) £500.
(b) £700.
(c) £300.
(d) £900.

4. To which of the following does Rushdie compare himself?
(a) John Updike.
(b) Adam Bellow.
(c) Martin Amis.
(d) Saul Bellow.

5. Whom does Rushdie remark destroyed Philip Larkin’s diaries?
(a) Ivor Brown.
(b) Betty Mackereth.
(c) Anne Hathaway.
(d) Monica Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Rushdie report having initially written the text of “Cervantes and Shakespeare”?

2. In which of the following of Jonson’s works does Rushdie note having acted?

3. Which of the following remarks that “India is no longer India” (233)?

4. Which school of painting does Amrita Sher-Gil condemn?

5. How many days pass for Shahryar and Shah Zaman between their revenge for cuckoldry and their marriages to Scheherazade and Dunyazad?

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