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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To which of the following is the anthology dedicated?
(a) Mia.
(b) Nabeelah.
(c) Seema.
(d) Tahera.

3. Which of the following authors The Witch Must Die?
(a) Zipes.
(b) Rushdie.
(c) Said.
(d) Cashdan.

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

5. At which of the following universities did Rushdie study?
(a) Imperial College London.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Oxford.
(d) University of Edinburgh.

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

7. Which of the following novels does Rushdie reference?
(a) Innocents Abroad.
(b) Pudd’nhead Wilson.
(c) Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
(d) Huckleberry Finn.

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

9. To which of the following does Rushdie compare himself?
(a) Adam Bellow.
(b) John Updike.
(c) Martin Amis.
(d) Saul Bellow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As which of the following does Rushdie define “amrita”?

2. To which of the following is Shakespeare’s authorship ascribed?

3. Which of the following does Rushdie note translated the Thousand Nights and One Night?

4. With which of the following does the first essay in Part Two begin?

5. Whose translation of Don Quixote does Rushdie favor?

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