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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 of Rushdie’s characters does he admit borrows from a childhood friend?
(a) Hairoil.
(b) Hanif.
(c) Soumitra.
(d) Masha.

2. To which of the following is Hitchens’s mind compared?
(a) Jaguar.
(b) Rolls-Royce.
(c) Alfa Romeo.
(d) Aston Martin.

3. Which of the following came to the PEN World Voiced festival from Brooklyn?
(a) Breyten Breytenbach.
(b) Elif Shafak.
(c) Paul Auster.
(d) Nuruddin Farah.

4. Whom does Rushdie remark destroyed Philip Larkin’s diaries?
(a) Anne Hathaway.
(b) Betty Mackereth.
(c) Monica Jones.
(d) Ivor Brown.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Hans Christian Andersen’s stories does Rushdie regard as his best?

2. In what year did Dickens first give a speaking tour in America?

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

4. Which of the following of Rushdie’s characters does he admit is autobiographical?

5. To which of the following does Rushdie liken the Abbottabad military academy?

(see the answer key)

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