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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Rushdie cite against sloth?
(a) Juvenal.
(b) Ovid.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Catullus.

2. What does Rushdie describe as the earliest message from the gods (246)?
(a) “Know that I am the Lord thy god.”
(b) “Love thy neighbor.”
(c) “Know your place.”
(d) “Love me, and despair.”

3. What meaning is ascribed to the name Scheherazade?
(a) Far-seeing.
(b) City-born.
(c) Insightful.
(d) Clever-tongued.

4. Which of Rushdie’s fellow students died in school in Bombay?
(a) Johnny Queen.
(b) Dave Prince.
(c) Mikey Knight.
(d) Jimmy King.

5. At which of the following English schools did Rushdie board?
(a) Wycliffe School.
(b) Eton College.
(c) Oakham School.
(d) Rugby School.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Dickens first give a speaking tour in America?

2. Which of Hans Christian Andersen’s stories does Rushdie regard as his best?

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

4. Of which of the following was Shah Zaman ruler?

5. How many days pass for Shahryar and Shah Zaman between their revenge for cuckoldry and their marriages to Scheherazade and Dunyazad?

(see the answer key)

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