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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Continued.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is carried in effigy in the Ganpati festival?
(a) Rama.
(b) Ganesh.
(c) Indra.
(d) Vishnu.

2. Of which of the following was Shah Zaman ruler?
(a) Ethiopia.
(b) Kashgar.
(c) Samarkand.
(d) Abyssinia.

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

4. What does Rushdie note was her preferred bookseller in Cambridge?
(a) Bowes & Bowes.
(b) Brother & Sister.
(c) Bird & Baby.
(d) Barnes & Noble.

5. In which of the following does Rushdie note the Ramayana is adapted?
(a) Combat of Shadows.
(b) Pataal Lok.
(c) Amar Chitra Katha.
(d) Hamzanama.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Rushdie remark destroyed Philip Larkin’s diaries?

2. What is the name of the first cow to appear in Norse myth?

3. What ranking does Slaughterhouse-Five enjoy in the Modern Library’s list of the best English-language novels of the twentieth century?

4. Which of the following authors does Rushdie note having read?

5. Which of the following does Rushdie cite against sloth?

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