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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ranking does Slaughterhouse-Five enjoy in the Modern Library’s list of the best English-language novels of the twentieth century?
(a) 15th.
(b) 18th.
(c) 9th.
(d) 12th.

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

3. Which of the following authors The Witch Must Die?
(a) Zipes.
(b) Rushdie.
(c) Said.
(d) Cashdan.

4. Which of the following is reported as saying “a novel is a long prose narrative that has something wrong with it” (35)?
(a) Brandon Sanderson.
(b) Stephen King.
(c) André Malraux.
(d) Randall Jarrell.

5. Which of Rushdie’s novels does he note Philip Roth read?
(a) The Golden House.
(b) Grimus.
(c) The Antagonist.
(d) Madame Rama.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which of the following does Rushdie note the Ramayana is adapted?

2. As which of the following does Rushdie gloss"khalaas"?

3. Which Kabbalah scholar does Rushdie note condemns Roth’s work?

4. Which of the following is Rushdie’s first published novel?

5. In which of the following districts of Bombay does Rushdie report having lived?

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