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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Rushdie posit may have connected Shakespeare to Cervantes?
(a) Cardenio.
(b) Thespis.
(c) Love’s Labor’s Won.
(d) Two Noble Kinsmen.

2. With which of the following does Rushdie note Roth lived?
(a) Molly Danes.
(b) Claire Bloom.
(c) Molly Bloom.
(d) Claire Danes.

3. At which of the following English schools did Rushdie board?
(a) Wycliffe School.
(b) Rugby School.
(c) Eton College.
(d) Oakham School.

4. Which of the following does Rushdie use as a name for Chicago?
(a) City of Broad Shoulders.
(b) Second City.
(c) Windy City.
(d) Hog Butcher to the World.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is attributed to Edward Bond?

2. In what year did Heller publish Catch-22?

3. Which of Rushdie’s novels does he note Philip Roth read?

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

5. In which of the following districts of Bombay does Rushdie report having lived?

(see the answer key)

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