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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of the following does Rushdie cite against sloth?
(a) Virgil.
(b) Juvenal.
(c) Catullus.
(d) Ovid.
2. With which of the following does the first essay of the section, “Truth,” begin?
(a) “India, in the mid-sixteenth century.”
(b) “The last time I heard from Philip Roth was in October 2017.”
(c) “What, art thou mad? Art thou mad?”
(d) “Before there were books, there were stories.”
3. Which of the following does Rushdie note is assumed to be objectionable by those who have not read or viewed it?
(a) Spring Awakening.
(b) Lord Foul’s Bane.
(c) Tobacco Road.
(d) Lady Chatterly’s Lover.
4. Which of the following does Rushdie note adapts Jan Potocki?
(a) Małgorzata Szumowska.
(b) Andrzej Wajda.
(c) Agnieszka Holland.
(d) Wojciech Has.
5. How many Academy Awards does Rushdie note The Curious Case of Benjamin Button won?
(a) 3.
(b) 9.
(c) 7.
(d) 13.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what year does Saligia first appear in writing?
2. Which of the following reality shows does Rushdie note invited him to appear?
3. What short story does Rushdie note is “perhaps the greatest short story in the English language” (167)?
4. Which of Hans Christian Andersen’s stories does Rushdie regard as his best?
5. Which of the following does Rushdie note transferred control of Bombay to England?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Rushdie explain the American preoccupation with religion?
2. What final gift does Rushdie note being able to offer Hitchens?
3. In what does Rushdie situate the origin of auteur theory?
4. What choice does Rushdie note is required to produce Othello?
5. What justification does Rushdie see used to condemn artists in India and the United States?
6. Why does Rushdie note admiring Susan Orlean in regards to Adaptation?
7. What does Rushdie note is the wrong answer to give when asked about autobiographical fiction?
8. How does Rushdie define adaptation?
9. How does Rushdie define the “given” with which authors must contend?
10. Paraphrase the remark by EB White about writing to children that Rushdie reports.
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