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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 comments that “The cruelest thing anyone can do with Portnoy’s Complaint is read it twice” (88)?
(a) John Berlin.
(b) Irving Howe.
(c) John Howe.
(d) Irving Berlin.

2. Which of Rushdie’s novels does he note Philip Roth read?
(a) The Golden House.
(b) The Antagonist.
(c) Madame Rama.
(d) Grimus.

3. Which of the following does Rushdie note Kundera ignores?
(a) Don Quixote.
(b) Tristram Shandy.
(c) Huckleberry Finn.
(d) Clarissa.

4. In what year does Rushdie report having initially written the text of “Cervantes and Shakespeare”?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2018.
(d) 2015.

5. Which of the following is attributed to Edward Bond?
(a) Hubbard.
(b) Bingo.
(c) MacDonald.
(d) Canasta.

Short Answer Questions

1. As which of the following does Rushdie explain Heraclitus’s idea of ethos?

2. Which Kabbalah scholar does Rushdie note condemns Roth’s work?

3. What ranking does Slaughterhouse-Five enjoy in the Modern Library’s list of the best English-language novels of the twentieth century?

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

5. In which city was Vonnegut imprisoned?

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