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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 resources does Rushdie note Sondheim as using?
(a) Roget’s Thesaurus.
(b) Songwriting for Dummies.
(c) Robert’s Rules of Order.
(d) Elements of Style.

2. Which of the following does Rushdie note is a friend of his?
(a) Jesmyn Ward.
(b) William Styron.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) David Grossman.

3. Which of the following does Rushdie note is assumed to be objectionable by those who have not read or viewed it?
(a) Tobacco Road.
(b) Spring Awakening.
(c) Lord Foul’s Bane.
(d) Lady Chatterly’s Lover.

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

5. Which of the following argued in 1986 that “literature is not an equal-opportunity employer” (221)?
(a) Salman Rushdie.
(b) Susan Sontag.
(c) Margaret Atwood.
(d) Nadine Gordimer.

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

7. Which high school does Rushdie note Philip Roth attended?
(a) Tivy.
(b) Hillside.
(c) Erasmus.
(d) Weequahic.

8. Which of the following does Rushdie call “The first great writer I knew” (158)?
(a) Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
(b) Ahmad Faraz.
(c) Mir Taqi Mir.
(d) Mirza Ghalib.

9. Who was invited to speak at the opening ceremony of the 1986 PEN America event?
(a) George Carlin.
(b) George Shultz.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) George HW Bush.

10. Who was *president* of PEN America in 2004?
(a) Mike Roberts.
(b) Salman Rushdie.
(c) Gore Vidal.
(d) Norman Mailer.

11. Who was president of PEN America in 1986?
(a) Norman Mailer.
(b) Salman Rushdie.
(c) Mike Roberts.
(d) Gore Vidal.

12. In what decade does Rushdie posit the human population of India exceeded the divine?
(a) 1940s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1950s.

13. Which of the following prevails upon Clinton to meet personally with Rushdie?
(a) Charles Gibson.
(b) George Stephanopoulos.
(c) Rahm Emmanuel.
(d) Mark Gearan.

14. Which of the following dystopian authors does Rushdie reference?
(a) Brown.
(b) Dashner.
(c) St. John Mandel.
(d) Atwood.

15. Which of the following was accused of being “a woman hungry of sex” (230)?
(a) Martha C. Nussbaum.
(b) Barbara Smuts.
(c) Wendy Doniger.
(d) Audrey Truschke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rushdie describe as the earliest message from the gods (246)?

2. Which of the following does Rushdie note as an exception to the maxim that film adaptations of books make bad movies?

3. In what year does Rushdie note having worked on the first draft of Shame?

4. With which of the following does Part Three end?

5. With which of the following does Rushdie note Hitchens became enamored?

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