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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What meaning is ascribed to the name Scheherazade?
(a) Far-seeing.
(b) City-born.
(c) Insightful.
(d) Clever-tongued.

3. 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) Overarching cultural story about the culture.
(d) Guiding principle that shapes one’s life.

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

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

6. At which of the following English schools did Rushdie board?
(a) Wycliffe School.
(b) Rugby School.
(c) Eton College.
(d) Oakham School.

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

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

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

10. In what year does Rushdie note having first read One Hundred Years of Solitude?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1972.

11. Which of Rushdie’s fellow students died in school in Bombay?
(a) Johnny Queen.
(b) Jimmy King.
(c) Mikey Knight.
(d) Dave Prince.

12. In what year does Rushdie report having initially written the text of “Cervantes and Shakespeare”?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2018.
(d) 2012.

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

14. What message does Vonnegut’s work assert is encoded in the Kremlin?
(a) “You will be on your way before you know it.”
(b) “Replacement part being rushed with all possible speed.”
(c) “Be patient. We haven’t forgotten you.”
(d) “Pack up your things and be ready to leave on short notice.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To which of the following is the anthology dedicated?

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

3. What ranking does Slaughterhouse-Five enjoy in the Modern Library’s list of the best English-language novels of the twentieth century?

4. In what translation does Rushdie note having first read One Hundred Years of Solitude?

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

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