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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To which of the following does Rushdie compare Kurt Vonnegut?
(a) Rudolph Valentino.
(b) Stan Laurel.
(c) Buster Keaton.
(d) Charlie Chaplin.

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

3. Which Kabbalah scholar does Rushdie note condemns Roth’s work?
(a) Moshe Idel.
(b) Gershom Scholem.
(c) Boaz Huss.
(d) Joseph Dan.

4. In what year does Rushdie report having met Eudora Welty?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1980.

5. What literary agency do Rushdie and Roth share?
(a) BJ Robbins.
(b) Wylie.
(c) InkWell.
(d) Veritas.

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

7. Which of the following is noted as the original title of the Thousand Nights and One Night?
(a) Rijal fi Alshams.
(b) Alsaaq fawq Alsaaq.
(c) Alf Laylah wa Laylah.
(d) Alliss Walkilab.

8. Which of the following is reported as saying “a novel is a long prose narrative that has something wrong with it” (35)?
(a) André Malraux.
(b) Brandon Sanderson.
(c) Randall Jarrell.
(d) Stephen King.

9. Which of Rushdie’s novels does he note Philip Roth read?
(a) Grimus.
(b) Madame Rama.
(c) The Golden House.
(d) The Antagonist.

10. To which of the following does Rushdie report his parents moved?
(a) Lahore.
(b) Rajkot.
(c) Karachi.
(d) Islamabad.

11. How many days pass for Shahryar and Shah Zaman between their revenge for cuckoldry and their marriages to Scheherazade and Dunyazad?
(a) 907.
(b) 1,001.
(c) 1,189.
(d) 1,095.

12. With which of the following does Part One end?
(a) “…once you have found your wings, you fly.”
(b) “I am proud to receive an award named for Harold Pinter, a great writer, a great citizen, and a great friend in need.”
(c) “Happy Commencement Day.”
(d) “And in our age of oversimplification, this beautiful complication has never been more important.”

13. Which of the following does Rushdie note Kundera ignores?
(a) Huckleberry Finn.
(b) Clarissa.
(c) Don Quixote.
(d) Tristram Shandy.

14. In what year does Rushdie note having first read Slaughterhouse-Five?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1971.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At which of the following universities did Rushdie study?

2. In what year does Rushdie report having initially written the text of “Cervantes and Shakespeare”?

3. Which of the following fantasy authors does Rushdie reference?

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

5. Which of the following novels does Rushdie reference?

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