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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With which of the following does Rushdie note Hitchens became enamored?
(a) Ash Carter.
(b) Paul Woflowitz.
(c) Rudy de Leon.
(d) Gordon England.

2. Which of the following does Rushdie observe received a Nobel Prize?
(a) Liu Xiaobo.
(b) Barack Obama.
(c) Seamus Heaney.
(d) Bob Dylan.

3. Which of the following prevails upon Clinton to meet personally with Rushdie?
(a) Rahm Emmanuel.
(b) Charles Gibson.
(c) Mark Gearan.
(d) George Stephanopoulos.

4. Which of the following African-American authors does Rushdie reference?
(a) Ta-Nehisi Coates.
(b) Nnedi Okorafor.
(c) NK Jemisin.
(d) Tomi Adeyemi.

5. For what virtue does Rushdie commend Harold Pinter?
(a) Courtesy.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Chastity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What message does Vonnegut’s work assert is encoded in Stonehenge?

2. To which of the following is Hitchens’s mind compared?

3. What short story does Rushdie note is “perhaps the greatest short story in the English language” (167)?

4. With which of the following does Rushdie note Roth lived?

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

(see the answer key)

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