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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Rushdie observe received a Nobel Prize?
(a) Liu Xiaobo.
(b) Barack Obama.
(c) Seamus Heaney.
(d) Bob Dylan.

2. In which year does Rushdie note the Indian Uprising occurred?
(a) 1583.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1066.
(d) 1776.

3. Which of the following does Rushdie note is assumed to be objectionable by those who have not read or viewed it?
(a) Midnight Cowboy.
(b) Showgirls.
(c) The Birdcage.
(d) Last Tango in Paris.

4. On what date is “Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)” written?
(a) 15 November.
(b) 15 January.
(c) 15 September.
(d) 15 December.

5. What writer does Rushdie note denies desire to understand other writers’ processes?
(a) Salman Rushdie.
(b) Bharati Mukherjee.
(c) VS Naipaul.
(d) Nuruddin Farah.

6. On whom does Rushdie note Harper Lee’s Dill is based?
(a) Truman Capote.
(b) Perry Edward Smith.
(c) Tennessee Williams.
(d) Peter Falk.

7. With what did China charge Ai Weiwei?
(a) Tax crimes.
(b) Trafficking.
(c) Jaywalking.
(d) Sedition.

8. Which of the following remarks that “India is no longer India” (233)?
(a) Amit Shah.
(b) Narendra Modi.
(c) Aatish Taseer.
(d) Rabindranath Tagore.

9. How does Rushdie gloss the term “Trümmerliteratur”?
(a) “Truthful literature.”
(b) “Drummer literature.”
(c) “Rubble literature.”
(d) “Stomach literature.”

10. With which of the following does the first essay of the section, “Truth,” begin?
(a) “Before there were books, there were stories.”
(b) “India, in the mid-sixteenth century.”
(c) “The last time I heard from Philip Roth was in October 2017.”
(d) “What, art thou mad? Art thou mad?”

11. Which of the following does Rushdie note transferred control of Bombay to England?
(a) India.
(b) Portugal.
(c) Spain.
(d) France.

12. What does Rushdie describe as the earliest message from the gods (246)?
(a) “Know your place.”
(b) “Love thy neighbor.”
(c) “Know that I am the Lord thy god.”
(d) “Love me, and despair.”

13. Which essay does Rushdie note was removed from the Delhi University curriculum?
(a) “Three Hundred Ramayanas.”
(b) “The Half-Woman God.”
(c) “The Eureka Phenomenon.”
(d) “The Malorian Kay as Fredalian Figure.”

14. At which institution has Rushdie lodged his papers?
(a) University of Cambridge.
(b) Emory University.
(c) Library of Congress.
(d) New York University.

15. Where was a statue of Catherine of Braganza planned to be erected?
(a) Dutch Kills.
(b) Hunters Point.
(c) Astoria.
(d) Sunnyside.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following of Rushdie’s characters does he admit is autobiographical?

2. Which of the following does Rushdie note praises Faulkner?

3. How many Academy Awards does Rushdie note The Curious Case of Benjamin Button won?

4. What sculptor does Rushdie suggest for Saligia?

5. In what year did Dickens die?

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