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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four and Back Matter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which city was Vonnegut imprisoned?
(a) Munich.
(b) Hamburg.
(c) Dresden.
(d) Berlin.

2. What ranking does Slaughterhouse-Five enjoy in the Modern Library’s list of the best English-language novels of the twentieth century?
(a) 9th.
(b) 12th.
(c) 18th.
(d) 15th.

3. Which of the following was accused of being “a woman hungry of sex” (230)?
(a) Barbara Smuts.
(b) Martha C. Nussbaum.
(c) Audrey Truschke.
(d) Wendy Doniger.

4. Which of the following does Rushdie note transferred control of Bombay to England?
(a) India.
(b) France.
(c) Spain.
(d) Portugal.

5. Of which of the following was Heraclitus a prince?
(a) Pythagoreio.
(b) Heraclion.
(c) Ephesus.
(d) Patmos.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How large an advance did Rushdie receive for his first published novel?

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

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

5. To which of the following is Shakespeare’s authorship ascribed?

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