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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 report is considered Roth’s best novel?
(a) The Ghost Writer.
(b) Sabbath’s Theater.
(c) Indignation.
(d) The Great American Novel.

2. Which of the following authors does Rushdie note having read?
(a) William H. Gass.
(b) Gail Godwin.
(c) John Gardner.
(d) Liz Rosenberg.

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

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

5. In what year does Rushdie note having first read Portnoy’s Complaint?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1973.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is carried in effigy in the Ganpati festival?

2. Of which of the following was Heraclitus a prince?

3. Which of the following authors The Witch Must Die?

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

5. Which of the following is reported as saying “a novel is a long prose narrative that has something wrong with it” (35)?

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