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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As which of the following does Rushdie gloss "shanti"?
(a) Peace.
(b) Ramshackle.
(c) Suspect.
(d) Done for.

2. Which of the following resources does Rushdie note Sondheim as using?
(a) Elements of Style.
(b) Roget’s Thesaurus.
(c) Robert’s Rules of Order.
(d) Songwriting for Dummies.

3. What short story does Rushdie note is “perhaps the greatest short story in the English language” (167)?
(a) Kincaid’s “Girl.”
(b) Bierce’s “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”
(c) Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Toy Dog.”
(d) Joyce’s “The Dead.”

4. With which of the following does the first essay in Part Two begin?
(a) “India, in the mid-sixteenth century.”
(b) “The last time I heard from Philip Roth was in October 2017.”
(c) “I once asked a maker of fine gold jewelry why she only worked in such an expensive material.”
(d) “What, art thou mad? Art thou mad?”

5. For how many Academy Awards does Rushdie note The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was nominated?
(a) 3.
(b) 13.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is posited to have written Don Quixote?

2. Which of the following does Rushdie note having written for his son?

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

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

5. With which of the following does Part One end?

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