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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. With which of the following does Part Two end?
(a) “I prefer not to.”
(b) “Happy Commencement Day.”
(c) “…once you have found your wings, you fly.”
(d) “And in our age of oversimplification, this beautiful complication has never been more important.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. In the context of discussing Muhammad Ali, the word “hagiography” most nearly means which of the following?
(a) Hag-writing.
(b) Praise-writing.
(c) Laughing-earth writing.
(d) Shame-writing.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following reality shows does Rushdie note invited him to appear?

2. Of what city’s organized crime does Roberto Saviano write?

3. Which of the following does Rushdie note adapts Jan Potocki?

4. Which of the following does Rushdie note transferred control of Bombay to England?

5. As which of the following did Hitchens address Mos Def?

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