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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does Rushdie note having worked on the first draft of Shame?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1984.

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

3. Which of the following African-American authors does Rushdie reference?
(a) Tomi Adeyemi.
(b) Nnedi Okorafor.
(c) NK Jemisin.
(d) Ta-Nehisi Coates.

4. At which of the following universities did Rushdie study?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Imperial College London.
(d) University of Edinburgh.

5. In what year does Rushdie first encounter Muhammad Ali?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2001.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following does Rushdie posit may have connected Shakespeare to Cervantes?

3. To which of the following does Rushdie compare Vyasa?

4. With which of the following does Rushdie note Roth lived?

5. To which of the following does Rushdie compare himself?

(see the answer key)

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