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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Rushdie use as a name for Chicago?
(a) Second City.
(b) Windy City.
(c) Hog Butcher to the World.
(d) City of Broad Shoulders.

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

3. With which of the following does “Introduction to The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. IV” begin?
(a) “Before there were books, there were stories.”
(b) “India, in the mid-sixteenth century.”
(c) “I once asked a maker of fine gold jewelry why she only worked in such an expensive material.”
(d) “What, art thou mad? Art thou mad?”

4. From which of the following does Rushdie note All in the Family is adapted?
(a) Strictly Come Dancing.
(b) The Office.
(c) Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
(d) Till Death Do Us Part.

5. With which of the following does Part Three end?
(a) “I prefer not to.”
(b) “I am proud to receive an award named for Harold Pinter, a great writer, a great citizen, and a great friend in need.”
(c) “Happy Commencement Day.”
(d) “…once you have found your wings, you fly.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was a statue of Catherine of Braganza planned to be erected?

2. What sculptor does Rushdie suggest for Saligia?

3. What literary agency do Rushdie and Roth share?

4. Which of the following was accused of being “a woman hungry of sex” (230)?

5. Rushdie notes that Osama bin Laden died just after which of the following observances?

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