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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Of which of the following was Shah Zaman ruler?
(a) Kashgar.
(b) Ethiopia.
(c) Samarkand.
(d) Abyssinia.

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

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

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

9. Which of the following authors does Rushdie note having read?
(a) Gail Godwin.
(b) Liz Rosenberg.
(c) John Gardner.
(d) William H. Gass.

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

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

12. What does Rushdie note was her preferred bookseller in Cambridge?
(a) Bowes & Bowes.
(b) Brother & Sister.
(c) Bird & Baby.
(d) Barnes & Noble.

13. Which of the following is Rushdie’s first published novel?
(a) Grimus.
(b) The Antagonist.
(c) Midnight’s Children.
(d) Madame Rama.

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) Volpone.
(d) The Alchemist.

15. Which of the following authored The Enigma of Arrival?
(a) Nuruddin Farah.
(b) Bharati Mukherjee.
(c) VS Naipaul.
(d) Salman Rushdie.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which of the following districts of Bombay does Rushdie report having lived?

2. In which of the following does Rushdie note the Ramayana is adapted?

3. With which of the following does Rushdie note Roth lived?

4. Which of the following does Rushdie note Kundera ignores?

5. To what literary device does Rushdie suggest García Márquez is prone?

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