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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is Rushdie’s first published novel?
(a) Midnight’s Children.
(b) Madame Rama.
(c) The Antagonist.
(d) Grimus.

3. How many deaths does Rushdie attribute to Shahryar and Shah Zaman in total?
(a) 3,214.
(b) 4,215.
(c) 1,212.
(d) 2,213.

4. How does Rushdie gloss the term “Trümmerliteratur”?
(a) “Truthful literature.”
(b) “Drummer literature.”
(c) “Rubble literature.”
(d) “Stomach literature.”

5. 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) “Before there were books, there were stories.”
(c) “India, in the mid-sixteenth century.”
(d) “What, art thou mad? Art thou mad?”

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Rushdie note translated the Thousand Nights and One Night?

2. Of what city’s organized crime does Roberto Saviano write?

3. To which of the following does Rushdie compare Philip Roth?

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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