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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 note praises Faulkner?
(a) David Grossman.
(b) William Styron.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Jesmyn Ward.

2. Which of the following of Rushdie’s characters does he admit borrows from a childhood friend?
(a) Masha.
(b) Soumitra.
(c) Hanif.
(d) Hairoil.

3. As which of the following did Hitchens address Mos Def?
(a) Dr. Def.
(b) Mr. Definition.
(c) Dr. Defenestration.
(d) Mr. Definitely.

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

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

6. What ranking among ArtReview’s list of powerful figures in the art world did Ai Weiwei hold?
(a) 7th.
(b) 11th.
(c) 9th.
(d) 13th.

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

8. Whom does Rushdie remark destroyed Philip Larkin’s diaries?
(a) Monica Jones.
(b) Betty Mackereth.
(c) Ivor Brown.
(d) Anne Hathaway.

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

10. To which of the following does Rushdie liken the Abbottabad military academy?
(a) The Citadel.
(b) Sandhurst.
(c) École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr.
(d) Annapolis.

11. With which of the following does “Introduction to The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. IV” begin?
(a) “I once asked a maker of fine gold jewelry why she only worked in such an expensive material.”
(b) “Before there were books, there were stories.”
(c) “What, art thou mad? Art thou mad?”
(d) “India, in the mid-sixteenth century.”

12. Who is known as the “Mama of Dada” (176)?
(a) Beatrix Potter.
(b) Beatrice Wood.
(c) Harry Potter.
(d) Harry Wood.

13. To which of the following does Rushdie compare Vyasa?
(a) Virgil.
(b) Homer.
(c) Milton.
(d) Spenser.

14. From which of the following does Rushdie note All in the Family is adapted?
(a) Strictly Come Dancing.
(b) Till Death Do Us Part.
(c) Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
(d) The Office.

15. Which of the following wrote “Stalin Epigram” in 1933?
(a) Akhmatova.
(b) Mandelstam.
(c) Solzhenitsyn.
(d) Sakharov.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Dickens die?

2. Where was a statue of Catherine of Braganza planned to be erected?

3. In what year does Rushdie note the Great Turbine Hall at London’s Tate Modern gallery opened?

4. On what date is “Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)” written?

5. To which of the following is Hitchens’s mind compared?

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