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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To which of the following does Rushdie liken the Abbottabad military academy?
(a) The Citadel.
(b) Annapolis.
(c) Sandhurst.
(d) École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr.

2. Which of Rushdie’s fellow students died in school in Bombay?
(a) Dave Prince.
(b) Johnny Queen.
(c) Mikey Knight.
(d) Jimmy King.

3. Which of the following of Rushdie’s characters does he admit is autobiographical?
(a) Khattam Shud.
(b) Pamela Lovelace.
(c) Malik Solanka.
(d) Babar Shakil.

4. Which essay does Rushdie note was removed from the Delhi University curriculum?
(a) “The Malorian Kay as Fredalian Figure.”
(b) “The Eureka Phenomenon.”
(c) “Three Hundred Ramayanas.”
(d) “The Half-Woman God.”

5. Which of the following was accused of being “a woman hungry of sex” (230)?
(a) Martha C. Nussbaum.
(b) Wendy Doniger.
(c) Audrey Truschke.
(d) Barbara Smuts.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is posited to have written Don Quixote?

3. As which of the following does Rushdie gloss "rutputty"?

4. In what year does Rushdie report having initially written the text of “Cervantes and Shakespeare”?

5. In what translation does Rushdie note having first read One Hundred Years of Solitude?

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