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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following fantasy authors does Rushdie reference?

2. Which of the following authors The Witch Must Die?

3. As which of the following does Rushdie translate sophos?

4. As which of the following does Rushdie gloss "rutputty"?

5. With which of the following does the first essay in Part Two begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rushdie remark the phase “so it goes” is used to euphemize?

2. What reason for enjoying Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” does Rushdie note?

3. How does Rushdie define childhood in “Heraclitus” (57)?

4. What idea about Shakespeare does Rushdie ascribe to Howard Brenton?

5. What effect does Rushdie note of Romanian orphans having no access to stories?

6. What does Rushdie assert that falling in love with stories awakens in children?

7. To what does the “Lakshman rekha” refer?

8. Why is Rushdie grateful for the mixed reception of his first published novel?

9. What does Rushdie note was his first attraction to Thousand Nights and One Night?

10. Why does Rushdie note he initially resisted reading One Hundred Years of Solitude?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the name of any one fictional character named in the text.

Essay Topic 2

What does Rushdie gain from disparaging the works of other writers? That is, what effect is created by his doing so, and how does it work to the advantage of the anthology?

Essay Topic 3

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in Languages of Truth? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the anthology supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

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