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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 himself?
(a) Saul Bellow.
(b) Martin Amis.
(c) John Updike.
(d) Adam Bellow.

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

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

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

5. As which of the following does Rushdie define “amrita”?
(a) Elixir of delight.
(b) Tincture of eternity.
(c) Nectar of immortality.
(d) Draught of somnolence.

6. Which of the following does Rushdie posit may have connected Shakespeare to Cervantes?
(a) Thespis.
(b) Two Noble Kinsmen.
(c) Cardenio.
(d) Love’s Labor’s Won.

7. In what translation does Rushdie note having first read One Hundred Years of Solitude?
(a) Aurelian Buendía.
(b) Gregory Rabassa.
(c) JC Orozco.
(d) Marie Boroff.

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

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

10. Which of the following is attributed to Edward Bond?
(a) Cursed.
(b) Saved.
(c) Blessed.
(d) Damned.

11. 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?”

12. Which of the following is posited to have written Don Quixote?
(a) Walter Raleigh.
(b) Francis Bacon.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) Roger Ascham.

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

14. In which of the following is Coalhouse Walker a character?
(a) Loon Lake.
(b) Andrew’s Brain.
(c) World’s Fair.
(d) Ragtime.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many deaths does Rushdie attribute to Shahryar and Shah Zaman before their marriages to Scheherazade and Dunyazad?

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

4. In which London neighborhood did Rushdie live while working part-time in advertising?

5. How many deaths does Rushdie attribute to Shahryar and Shah Zaman in total?

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