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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following of Rushdie’s characters does he admit borrows from a childhood friend?
(a) Hanif.
(b) Hairoil.
(c) Masha.
(d) Soumitra.

2. With which of the following does “Introduction to The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. IV” begin?
(a) “I once asked a maker of fine gold jewelry why she only worked in such an expensive material.”
(b) “India, in the mid-sixteenth century.”
(c) “What, art thou mad? Art thou mad?”
(d) “Before there were books, there were stories.”

3. In what decade does Rushdie posit the human population of India exceeded the divine?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1930s.

4. In what year does Rushdie note having first read Slaughterhouse-Five?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1972.

5. Which Kabbalah scholar does Rushdie note condemns Roth’s work?
(a) Moshe Idel.
(b) Joseph Dan.
(c) Boaz Huss.
(d) Gershom Scholem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following sins does Rushdie claim is worst?

2. To which of the following does Rushdie report his parents moved?

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

4. At which of the following universities did Rushdie study?

5. Which of Rushdie’s fellow students died in school in Bombay?

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