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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following does Rushdie note having written for his son?
(a) Shalimar the Clown.
(b) Quichotte.
(c) Midnight’s Children.
(d) Luka and the Fire of Life.

3. As which of the following does Rushdie translate sophos?
(a) Awareness.
(b) Charisma.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Wisdom.

4. As which of the following does Rushdie gloss"khalaas"?
(a) Ramshackle.
(b) Peace.
(c) Suspect.
(d) Done for.

5. As which of the following does Rushdie explain Heraclitus’s idea of ethos?
(a) Way of being in the world.
(b) Assertion of considered reason.
(c) Guiding principle that shapes one’s life.
(d) Overarching cultural story about the culture.

6. To what literary device does Rushdie suggest García Márquez is prone?
(a) Laconism.
(b) Periphrasis.
(c) Litotes.
(d) Hyperbole.

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

8. Which of the following fantasy authors does Rushdie reference?
(a) Le Guin.
(b) Hughes.
(c) Hobb.
(d) McKillip.

9. To which of the following does Rushdie compare himself?
(a) Adam Bellow.
(b) John Updike.
(c) Martin Amis.
(d) Saul Bellow.

10. Which of the following poems by Housman does Rushdie reference?
(a) “The Land of Confusion.”
(b) “The Land of Found Content.”
(c) “The Land of Discontent.”
(d) “The Land of Lost Content.”

11. With which of the following does the first essay in Part Two begin?
(a) “India, in the mid-sixteenth century.”
(b) “What, art thou mad? Art thou mad?”
(c) “The last time I heard from Philip Roth was in October 2017.”
(d) “I once asked a maker of fine gold jewelry why she only worked in such an expensive material.”

12. How large an advance did Rushdie receive for his first published novel?
(a) £500.
(b) £300.
(c) £700.
(d) £900.

13. In which London neighborhood did Rushdie live while working part-time in advertising?
(a) Kentish Town.
(b) Islington.
(c) Belsize Park.
(d) Camden Town.

14. With which of the following does Rushdie note Roth lived?
(a) Claire Bloom.
(b) Claire Danes.
(c) Molly Bloom.
(d) Molly Danes.

15. Which of the following does Rushdie note having written for his son?
(a) The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
(b) Haroun and the Sea of Stories.
(c) Grimus.
(d) The Satanic Verses.

Short Answer Questions

1. As which of the following does Rushdie define “amrita”?

2. Which of the following authors The Witch Must Die?

3. Which of Rushdie’s novels does he note Philip Roth read?

4. What does Rushdie note was her preferred bookseller in Cambridge?

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

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