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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose translation of Don Quixote does Rushdie favor?
(a) John Rutherford.
(b) JM Cohen.
(c) Edith Grossman.
(d) Burton Raffel.

3. To which of the following is the anthology dedicated?
(a) Eleanor.
(b) Laurel.
(c) Violet.
(d) Rose.

4. Which of the following does Rushdie use as a name for Chicago?
(a) City of Broad Shoulders.
(b) Windy City.
(c) Second City.
(d) Hog Butcher to the World.

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

6. From which of the following does Rushdie note borrowing?
(a) Katha Sarit Sagara.
(b) Brihat Katha.
(c) Artha Shastra.
(d) Mudra Raksasha.

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

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

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

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

11. In what year does Rushdie note having first read Portnoy’s Complaint?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1974.

12. The phrase “sui generis” most nearly means which of the following?
(a) Engaging.
(b) Derivative.
(c) Dull.
(d) Original.

13. In which of the following districts of Bombay does Rushdie report having lived?
(a) Tardeo.
(b) Malabar Hill.
(c) Breach Candy.
(d) Byculla.

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

15. To which of the following is Shakespeare’s authorship ascribed?
(a) Francis Bacon.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Roger Ascham.
(d) Walter Raleigh.

Short Answer Questions

1. As which of the following does Rushdie explain Heraclitus’s idea of daimon?

2. Which of the following does Rushdie report being among his father’s library?

3. Of which of the following was Heraclitus a prince?

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

5. What is the name of the first cow to appear in Norse myth?

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