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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the first cow to appear in Norse myth?
(a) Buri.
(b) Ymir.
(c) Audumla.
(d) Brunhild.

3. How many deaths does Rushdie attribute to Shahryar and Shah Zaman before their marriages to Scheherazade and Dunyazad?
(a) 1,212.
(b) 4,215.
(c) 3,214.
(d) 2,213.

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

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

6. Which of the following does Rushdie report being among his father’s library?
(a) Pride and Prejudice.
(b) The Last Dark.
(c) The Other Wind.
(d) The Tribe that Lost Its Head.

7. Which of the following books does Rushdie reference?
(a) Ravelstein.
(b) Seize the Day.
(c) Mr. Sammler’s Planet.
(d) Augie March.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. In which of the following of Jonson’s works does Rushdie note having acted?
(a) Eastward Hoe.
(b) The Devil Is an Ass.
(c) The Alchemist.
(d) Volpone.

15. With which of the following does the first essay in the section, “Wonder Tales,” begin?
(a) “I once asked a maker of fine gold jewelry why she only worked in such an expensive material.”
(b) “Before there were books, there were stories.”
(c) “The last time I heard from Philip Roth was in October 2017.”
(d) “What, art thou mad? Art thou mad?”

Short Answer Questions

1. In which of the following is Coalhouse Walker a character?

2. What literary agency do Rushdie and Roth share?

3. Which of Rushdie’s fellow students died in school in Bombay?

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

5. Which of the following is attributed to Edward Bond?

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