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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year does Rushdie note having worked on the first draft of Shame?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1981.

3. In what year did Dickens first give a speaking tour in America?
(a) 1828.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1856.

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

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

6. Rushdie notes that Osama bin Laden died just after which of the following observances?
(a) Walpurgisnacht.
(b) Beltane.
(c) Ramadan.
(d) Pentecost.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. How many Academy Awards does Rushdie note The Curious Case of Benjamin Button won?
(a) 7.
(b) 13.
(c) 9.
(d) 3.

14. In what year does Saligia first appear in writing?
(a) 1471.
(b) 1371.
(c) 1271.
(d) 1571.

15. Which of the following reality shows does Rushdie note invited him to appear?
(a) Celebrity Apprentice.
(b) Shark Tank.
(c) Strictly Come Dancing.
(d) Dancing with the Stars.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following was accused of being “a woman hungry of sex” (230)?

3. Which of the following dystopian authors does Rushdie reference?

4. Who is known as the “Mama of Dada” (176)?

5. In what year did Dickens die?

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