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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) “What, art thou mad? Art thou mad?”
(d) “I once asked a maker of fine gold jewelry why she only worked in such an expensive material.”

2. As which of the following does Rushdie gloss "shanti"?
(a) Done for.
(b) Peace.
(c) Ramshackle.
(d) Suspect.

3. To which of the following is the anthology dedicated?
(a) Tahera.
(b) Nabeelah.
(c) Seema.
(d) Mia.

4. Of which of the following was Heraclitus a prince?
(a) Pythagoreio.
(b) Ephesus.
(c) Heraclion.
(d) Patmos.

5. Which of the following is reported as saying “a novel is a long prose narrative that has something wrong with it” (35)?
(a) André Malraux.
(b) Randall Jarrell.
(c) Stephen King.
(d) Brandon Sanderson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following reality shows does Rushdie note invited him to appear?

2. As which of the following does Rushdie define “amrita”?

3. What message does Vonnegut’s work assert is encoded in the Kremlin?

4. Which of the following does Rushdie note Kundera ignores?

5. For what virtue does Rushdie commend Harold Pinter?

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