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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does Rushdie report having initially written the text of “Cervantes and Shakespeare”?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2018.
(c) 2015.
(d) 2012.

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

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

4. Which of the following poems by Housman does Rushdie reference?
(a) “The Land of Found Content.”
(b) “The Land of Lost Content.”
(c) “The Land of Discontent.”
(d) “The Land of Confusion.”

5. What is the name of the first cow to appear in Norse myth?
(a) Audumla.
(b) Brunhild.
(c) Ymir.
(d) Buri.

6. Which of the following is noted as the original title of the Thousand Nights and One Night?
(a) Alf Laylah wa Laylah.
(b) Alsaaq fawq Alsaaq.
(c) Rijal fi Alshams.
(d) Alliss Walkilab.

7. In what year does Rushdie note having first read One Hundred Years of Solitude?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1974.

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

9. To which of the following does Rushdie compare Kurt Vonnegut?
(a) Charlie Chaplin.
(b) Buster Keaton.
(c) Rudolph Valentino.
(d) Stan Laurel.

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

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

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

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

14. What message does Vonnegut’s work assert is encoded in Stonehenge?
(a) “Pack up your things and be ready to leave on short notice.”
(b) “Replacement part being rushed with all possible speed.”
(c) “Be patient. We haven’t forgotten you.”
(d) “You will be on your way before you know it.”

15. Which of the following comments that “The cruelest thing anyone can do with Portnoy’s Complaint is read it twice” (88)?
(a) John Howe.
(b) John Berlin.
(c) Irving Howe.
(d) Irving Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many deaths does Rushdie attribute to Shahryar and Shah Zaman in total?

2. To which of the following is the anthology dedicated?

3. What message does Vonnegut’s work assert is encoded in the Kremlin?

4. Which of the following authors does Rushdie note having read?

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

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