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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What meaning is ascribed to the name Scheherazade?
(a) Insightful.
(b) Far-seeing.
(c) Clever-tongued.
(d) City-born.

2. To which of the following does Rushdie report his parents moved?
(a) Islamabad.
(b) Rajkot.
(c) Lahore.
(d) Karachi.

3. Which Kabbalah scholar does Rushdie note condemns Roth’s work?
(a) Boaz Huss.
(b) Gershom Scholem.
(c) Moshe Idel.
(d) Joseph Dan.

4. 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) “I am proud to receive an award named for Harold Pinter, a great writer, a great citizen, and a great friend in need.”
(c) “…once you have found your wings, you fly.”
(d) “Happy Commencement Day.”

5. In which of the following of Jonson’s works does Rushdie note having acted?
(a) Eastward Hoe.
(b) The Devil Is an Ass.
(c) Volpone.
(d) The Alchemist.

6. 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) 12th.
(c) 9th.
(d) 18th.

7. As which of the following does Rushdie translate sophos?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Charisma.
(d) Awareness.

8. In what year does Rushdie note having first read Slaughterhouse-Five?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1971.

9. In what year does Rushdie report having met Eudora Welty?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1980.

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

11. Which of the following characters does Rushdie reference?
(a) Bilbo Baggins.
(b) Elijah Baley.
(c) FitzChivalry Farseer.
(d) Thomas Covenant.

12. As which of the following does Rushdie gloss"khalaas"?
(a) Suspect.
(b) Done for.
(c) Ramshackle.
(d) Peace.

13. Which of the following does Rushdie note having written for his son?
(a) The Satanic Verses.
(b) The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
(c) Haroun and the Sea of Stories.
(d) Grimus.

14. Which of the following does Rushdie note having written for his son?
(a) Quichotte.
(b) Luka and the Fire of Life.
(c) Midnight’s Children.
(d) Shalimar the Clown.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In which London neighborhood did Rushdie live while working part-time in advertising?

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

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

4. In which city was Vonnegut imprisoned?

5. At which of the following English schools did Rushdie board?

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