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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days pass for Shahryar and Shah Zaman between their revenge for cuckoldry and their marriages to Scheherazade and Dunyazad?
(a) 1,189.
(b) 907.
(c) 1,095.
(d) 1,001.

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

3. The phrase “sui generis” most nearly means which of the following?
(a) Original.
(b) Derivative.
(c) Dull.
(d) Engaging.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Which of the following does Rushdie note translated the Thousand Nights and One Night?
(a) Jakob Grimm.
(b) Andrew Lang.
(c) Antoine Galland.
(d) Francis Perrault.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following does Rushdie note having written for his son?

3. Which of the following authors does Rushdie note having read?

4. At which of the following universities did Rushdie study?

5. As which of the following does Rushdie explain Heraclitus’s idea of ethos?

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