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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what city’s organized crime does Roberto Saviano write?
(a) Venice.
(b) Naples.
(c) Rome.
(d) Padua.

2. With which of the following does Rushdie note Hitchens became enamored?
(a) Ash Carter.
(b) Rudy de Leon.
(c) Paul Woflowitz.
(d) Gordon England.

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

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

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

6. Alongside which of the following was Rushdie invited to an Australian atheist event?
(a) Linda LaScola.
(b) Sam Harris.
(c) Daniel Dennett.
(d) David Chalmers.

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

8. Which of the following does Rushdie cite in protest of a proposed UK law that would have forbidden criticizing religion?
(a) Bill Bailey.
(b) Eddie Izzard.
(c) John Cleese.
(d) Rowan Atkinson.

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

10. In what year did Dickens die?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1828.
(d) 1842.

11. 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) Lord Foul’s Bane.
(c) Lady Chatterly’s Lover.
(d) Spring Awakening.

12. Which of the following does Rushdie cite against sloth?
(a) Ovid.
(b) Virgil.
(c) Juvenal.
(d) Catullus.

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

14. In what year does Rushdie note the Great Turbine Hall at London’s Tate Modern gallery opened?
(a) 2000.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2019.

15. Which of the following does Rushdie note was the first exhibit in the Great Turbine Hall at London’s Tate Modern gallery?
(a) Marsyas.
(b) Maman.
(c) Fons Americanus.
(d) Sunflower Seeds.

Short Answer Questions

1. On whom does Rushdie note Harper Lee’s Dill is based?

2. Who was *CEO* of PEN America in 2004?

3. Which of the following resources does Rushdie note Sondheim as using?

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

5. What short story does Rushdie note is “perhaps the greatest short story in the English language” (167)?

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