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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 resources does Rushdie note Sondheim as using?
2. Which of the following dystopian authors does Rushdie reference?
3. Which of the following does Rushdie observe received a Nobel Prize?
4. Which of the following prevails upon Clinton to meet personally with Rushdie?
5. Who was *CEO* of PEN America in 2004?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Rushdie note admiring Susan Orlean in regards to Adaptation?
2. To what does Rushdie ascribe the closeness of his friendship with Christopher Hitchens?
3. What does Rushdie call the most ancient question (180)?
4. What three countries does Rushdie comment that he has “spent [his] life caring about” (211)?
5. What does Rushdie note as a reason the interviews in the Paris Review are worth attention?
6. Paraphrase the remark by EB White about writing to children that Rushdie reports.
7. For what reason was Sunflower Seeds cordoned off from the public?
8. What final gift does Rushdie note being able to offer Hitchens?
9. How does Rushdie propose readers fight against censorship and artistic repression?
10. What does Rushdie note caused the characters drawn from his biography to come alive?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What function does the back matter in the anthology serve? How is that function performed?
Essay Topic 2
In the anthology, some individuals are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the book? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the book? How does Languages of Truth bear as much out?
Essay Topic 3
To what other writer’s work in your experience does Rushdie’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?
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