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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Front Matter and Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days pass for Shahryar and Shah Zaman between their revenge for cuckoldry and their marriages to Scheherazade and Dunyazad?
(a) 1,189.
(b) 907.
(c) 1,001.
(d) 1,095.

2. As which of the following does Rushdie define “amrita”?
(a) Nectar of immortality.
(b) Draught of somnolence.
(c) Tincture of eternity.
(d) Elixir of delight.

3. Which of the following does Rushdie note Kundera ignores?
(a) Huckleberry Finn.
(b) Tristram Shandy.
(c) Don Quixote.
(d) Clarissa.

4. As which of the following does Rushdie explain Heraclitus’s idea of ethos?
(a) Overarching cultural story about the culture.
(b) Guiding principle that shapes one’s life.
(c) Way of being in the world.
(d) Assertion of considered reason.

5. Which of the following is attributed to Edward Bond?
(a) Damned.
(b) Cursed.
(c) Saved.
(d) Blessed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following authors The Witch Must Die?

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

3. Which of the following is attributed to Edward Bond?

4. In what year does Rushdie report having met Eudora Welty?

5. Which of the following does Rushdie note having written for his son?

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