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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To which of the following is Shakespeare’s authorship ascribed?
(a) Francis Bacon.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Walter Raleigh.
(d) Roger Ascham.

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

4. Which of the following does Rushdie report being among his father’s library?
(a) The Other Wind.
(b) The Last Dark.
(c) Pride and Prejudice.
(d) The Tribe that Lost Its Head.

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

6. With which of the following does Part One end?
(a) “…once you have found your wings, you fly.”
(b) “And in our age of oversimplification, this beautiful complication has never been more important.”
(c) “I am proud to receive an award named for Harold Pinter, a great writer, a great citizen, and a great friend in need.”
(d) “Happy Commencement Day.”

7. Which of the following fantasy authors does Rushdie reference?
(a) Hughes.
(b) Le Guin.
(c) McKillip.
(d) Hobb.

8. With which of the following does the first essay in the section, “Wonder Tales,” begin?
(a) “What, art thou mad? Art thou mad?”
(b) “The last time I heard from Philip Roth was in October 2017.”
(c) “Before there were books, there were stories.”
(d) “I once asked a maker of fine gold jewelry why she only worked in such an expensive material.”

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

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

11. Which of the following is attributed to Edward Bond?
(a) Bingo.
(b) Hubbard.
(c) MacDonald.
(d) Canasta.

12. To which of the following is the anthology dedicated?
(a) Mia.
(b) Seema.
(c) Nabeelah.
(d) Tahera.

13. 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) Irving Howe.
(c) Irving Berlin.
(d) John Berlin.

14. From which of the following does Rushdie note borrowing?
(a) Artha Shastra.
(b) Mudra Raksasha.
(c) Katha Sarit Sagara.
(d) Brihat Katha.

15. Which of the following authored The Enigma of Arrival?
(a) Salman Rushdie.
(b) Nuruddin Farah.
(c) Bharati Mukherjee.
(d) VS Naipaul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What message does Vonnegut’s work assert is encoded in Stonehenge?

2. To what literary device does Rushdie suggest García Márquez is prone?

3. Which of the following does Rushdie use as a name for Chicago?

4. How many days pass for Shahryar and Shah Zaman between their revenge for cuckoldry and their marriages to Scheherazade and Dunyazad?

5. In what year does Rushdie report having initially written the text of “Cervantes and Shakespeare”?

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