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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what decade does Rushdie posit the human population of India exceeded the divine?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1920s.

2. In what year does Rushdie note having first read Portnoy’s Complaint?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1974.

3. To which of the following does Rushdie compare himself?
(a) Saul Bellow.
(b) Adam Bellow.
(c) John Updike.
(d) Martin Amis.

4. Whose translation of Don Quixote does Rushdie favor?
(a) Burton Raffel.
(b) John Rutherford.
(c) Edith Grossman.
(d) JM Cohen.

5. In what year did Dickens die?
(a) 1828.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1856.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was president of PEN America in 1986?

2. What message does Vonnegut’s work assert is encoded in Stonehenge?

3. Which of the following came to the PEN World Voiced festival from Brooklyn?

4. Which of the following books does Rushdie reference?

5. Which of the following wrote “Stalin Epigram” in 1933?

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