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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Rushdie cite against sloth?
(a) Juvenal.
(b) Ovid.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Catullus.

2. Who was *CEO* of PEN America in 2004?
(a) Mike Roberts.
(b) Norman Mailer.
(c) Gore Vidal.
(d) Salman Rushdie.

3. Which of the following does Rushdie call “The first great writer I knew” (158)?
(a) Mir Taqi Mir.
(b) Mirza Ghalib.
(c) Ahmad Faraz.
(d) Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

4. Which of the following prevails upon Clinton to meet personally with Rushdie?
(a) Mark Gearan.
(b) Rahm Emmanuel.
(c) Charles Gibson.
(d) George Stephanopoulos.

5. Which of the following wrote “Stalin Epigram” in 1933?
(a) Akhmatova.
(b) Solzhenitsyn.
(c) Sakharov.
(d) Mandelstam.

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

7. In the context of discussing Muhammad Ali, the word “hagiography” most nearly means which of the following?
(a) Shame-writing.
(b) Praise-writing.
(c) Laughing-earth writing.
(d) Hag-writing.

8. Alongside which of the following was Rushdie invited to an Australian atheist event?
(a) Daniel Dennett.
(b) Linda LaScola.
(c) David Chalmers.
(d) Sam Harris.

9. How many Academy Awards does Rushdie note The Curious Case of Benjamin Button won?
(a) 7.
(b) 13.
(c) 3.
(d) 9.

10. Which essay does Rushdie note was removed from the Delhi University curriculum?
(a) “The Eureka Phenomenon.”
(b) “The Half-Woman God.”
(c) “The Malorian Kay as Fredalian Figure.”
(d) “Three Hundred Ramayanas.”

11. In what decade does Rushdie posit the human population of India exceeded the divine?
(a) 1940s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1950s.

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

13. What does Rushdie describe as the earliest message from the gods (246)?
(a) “Know your place.”
(b) “Love me, and despair.”
(c) “Love thy neighbor.”
(d) “Know that I am the Lord thy god.”

14. Which of the following remarks that “India is no longer India” (233)?
(a) Narendra Modi.
(b) Aatish Taseer.
(c) Amit Shah.
(d) Rabindranath Tagore.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was president of PEN America in 1986?

2. What writer does Rushdie note denies desire to understand other writers’ processes?

3. In what year does Saligia first appear in writing?

4. What ranking among ArtReview’s list of powerful figures in the art world did Ai Weiwei hold?

5. At which institution has Rushdie lodged his papers?

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