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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. How many deaths does Rushdie attribute to Shahryar and Shah Zaman before their marriages to Scheherazade and Dunyazad?
2. As which of the following does Rushdie translate sophos?
3. As which of the following does Rushdie explain Heraclitus’s idea of ethos?
4. With which of the following does Part One end?
5. What message does Vonnegut’s work assert is encoded in Stonehenge?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Rushdie identify as the primary value of the protean in literature?
2. What idea about Shakespeare does Rushdie ascribe to Howard Brenton?
3. For what reason does Carlos Fuentes remark that Latin American writers hesitate to use the word “solitude”?
4. In what way does Rushdie contrast the animal fables of “the Eastern canon” with those represented by Aesop?
5. What was Rushdie’s last assignment as a student journalist?
6. Paraphrase Roth’s reported comment to Remnick about setting a novel in a therapist’s office?
7. For what reason does Rushdie report Scheherazade pled for her life to be spared by her husband?
8. Why does Rushdie note it took him so long to write his second published novel as it did?
9. What answer to the question of difficult reading does Rushdie propose?
10. Why is Rushdie grateful for the mixed reception of his first published novel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Readerly attention focuses on the following passage: “I believe that the books and stories we fall in love with make us who we are, or, not to claim too much, that the act of falling in love with a book or story changes us in some way, and the beloved tale becomes a part of our picture of the world, a part of the way in which we understand things and make judgements and choices in our daily lives” (3). Does the passage bear out? What in the anthology and in your experience suggests as much? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
What literary reference is the most important of Languages of Truth? How does the anthology support such an assertion?
Essay Topic 3
To what genre other than essay anthology might Languages of Truth be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?
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