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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose translation of Don Quixote does Rushdie favor?
(a) John Rutherford.
(b) Burton Raffel.
(c) Edith Grossman.
(d) JM Cohen.

2. What meaning is ascribed to the name Scheherazade?
(a) Clever-tongued.
(b) Insightful.
(c) City-born.
(d) Far-seeing.

3. How many deaths does Rushdie attribute to Shahryar and Shah Zaman before their marriages to Scheherazade and Dunyazad?
(a) 4,215.
(b) 1,212.
(c) 3,214.
(d) 2,213.

4. Which of the following poems by Housman does Rushdie reference?
(a) “The Land of Confusion.”
(b) “The Land of Discontent.”
(c) “The Land of Lost Content.”
(d) “The Land of Found Content.”

5. Which of the following is posited to have written Don Quixote?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Walter Raleigh.
(c) Roger Ascham.
(d) Francis Bacon.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which of the following does Rushdie compare himself?

2. As which of the following does Rushdie translate sophos?

3. Which of the following does Rushdie note translated the Thousand Nights and One Night?

4. With which of the following does the first essay in the section, “Wonder Tales,” begin?

5. What does Rushdie note was her preferred bookseller in Cambridge?

(see the answer key)

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