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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which year does Rushdie note the Indian Uprising occurred?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1066.
(d) 1583.

2. Which of the following is posited to have written Don Quixote?
(a) Francis Bacon.
(b) Roger Ascham.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) Walter Raleigh.

3. Which of the following does Rushdie note translated the Thousand Nights and One Night?
(a) Antoine Galland.
(b) Francis Perrault.
(c) Andrew Lang.
(d) Jakob Grimm.

4. Who was *CEO* of PEN America in 2004?
(a) Gore Vidal.
(b) Salman Rushdie.
(c) Norman Mailer.
(d) Mike Roberts.

5. Which of the following comments that “The cruelest thing anyone can do with Portnoy’s Complaint is read it twice” (88)?
(a) John Berlin.
(b) John Howe.
(c) Irving Berlin.
(d) Irving Howe.

Short Answer Questions

1. The phrase “sui generis” most nearly means which of the following?

2. Which of the following is carried in effigy in the Ganpati festival?

3. Which of the following does Rushdie note adapts Jan Potocki?

4. In what year does Rushdie report having met Eudora Welty?

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

(see the answer key)

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