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

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) 18th.
(b) 15th.
(c) 9th.
(d) 12th.

2. In what year did Dickens die?
(a) 1828.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1842.

3. Of what city’s organized crime does Roberto Saviano write?
(a) Padua.
(b) Rome.
(c) Naples.
(d) Venice.

4. To which of the following does Rushdie compare Vyasa?
(a) Milton.
(b) Virgil.
(c) Spenser.
(d) Homer.

5. What does Rushdie note was her preferred bookseller in Cambridge?
(a) Bird & Baby.
(b) Barnes & Noble.
(c) Brother & Sister.
(d) Bowes & Bowes.

Short Answer Questions

1. With which of the following does the first essay in the section, “Wonder Tales,” begin?

2. Of which of the following was Shah Zaman ruler?

3. As which of the following does Rushdie rename Death?

4. Which of the following does Rushdie report is considered Roth’s best novel?

5. The phrase “sui generis” most nearly means which of the following?

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