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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which Kabbalah scholar does Rushdie note condemns Roth’s work?
(a) Gershom Scholem.
(b) Joseph Dan.
(c) Moshe Idel.
(d) Boaz Huss.

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

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

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

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

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

8. How many deaths does Rushdie attribute to Shahryar and Shah Zaman in total?
(a) 4,215.
(b) 1,212.
(c) 3,214.
(d) 2,213.

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

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

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

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

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

14. In which city was Vonnegut imprisoned?
(a) Hamburg.
(b) Dresden.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Munich.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following is carried in effigy in the Ganpati festival?

4. Which of the following is noted as the original title of the Thousand Nights and One Night?

5. Which of the following is posited to have written Don Quixote?

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