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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 authored The Enigma of Arrival?
(a) VS Naipaul.
(b) Salman Rushdie.
(c) Nuruddin Farah.
(d) Bharati Mukherjee.

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

3. How many days pass for Shahryar and Shah Zaman between their revenge for cuckoldry and their marriages to Scheherazade and Dunyazad?
(a) 907.
(b) 1,189.
(c) 1,001.
(d) 1,095.

4. In which London neighborhood did Rushdie live while working part-time in advertising?
(a) Islington.
(b) Kentish Town.
(c) Camden Town.
(d) Belsize Park.

5. To which of the following is Shakespeare’s authorship ascribed?
(a) Walter Raleigh.
(b) Roger Ascham.
(c) Francis Bacon.
(d) Isaac Newton.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. With which of the following does the first essay in Part Two begin?

4. Which of the following books does Rushdie reference?

5. Which of the following poems by Housman does Rushdie reference?

(see the answer key)

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