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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Academy Awards does Rushdie note The Curious Case of Benjamin Button won?
(a) 7.
(b) 9.
(c) 13.
(d) 3.

2. With which of the following does Part Two end?
(a) “Happy Commencement Day.”
(b) “…once you have found your wings, you fly.”
(c) “I prefer not to.”
(d) “And in our age of oversimplification, this beautiful complication has never been more important.”

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

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

5. Where was a statue of Catherine of Braganza planned to be erected?
(a) Sunnyside.
(b) Hunters Point.
(c) Astoria.
(d) Dutch Kills.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Rushdie report being among his father’s library?

2. Which of the following does Rushdie note Kundera ignores?

3. Who claims to have been the inspiration for Rushdie’s character Vina Aspara?

4. As which of the following does Rushdie gloss "rutputty"?

5. In what year does Rushdie note having worked on the first draft of Shame?

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