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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To which of the following does Rushdie compare Philip Roth?
(a) John Updike.
(b) Martin Amis.
(c) Adam Bellow.
(d) Saul Bellow.

2. Which of the following is carried in effigy in the Ganpati festival?
(a) Vishnu.
(b) Rama.
(c) Ganesh.
(d) Indra.

3. Which of the following characters does Rushdie reference?
(a) Bilbo Baggins.
(b) Elijah Baley.
(c) Thomas Covenant.
(d) FitzChivalry Farseer.

4. Which of the following does Rushdie note having written for his son?
(a) Shalimar the Clown.
(b) Midnight’s Children.
(c) Quichotte.
(d) Luka and the Fire of Life.

5. To which of the following does Rushdie report his parents moved?
(a) Rajkot.
(b) Karachi.
(c) Islamabad.
(d) Lahore.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following comments that “The cruelest thing anyone can do with Portnoy’s Complaint is read it twice” (88)?

2. In what translation does Rushdie note having first read One Hundred Years of Solitude?

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

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

5. To what literary device does Rushdie suggest García Márquez is prone?

(see the answer key)

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