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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Rushdie’s novels does he note Philip Roth read?
(a) The Antagonist.
(b) Madame Rama.
(c) Grimus.
(d) The Golden House.

2. How many deaths does Rushdie attribute to Shahryar and Shah Zaman in total?
(a) 4,215.
(b) 1,212.
(c) 2,213.
(d) 3,214.

3. In which of the following does Rushdie note the Ramayana is adapted?
(a) Hamzanama.
(b) Amar Chitra Katha.
(c) Pataal Lok.
(d) Combat of Shadows.

4. Which of Rushdie’s fellow students died in school in Bombay?
(a) Dave Prince.
(b) Jimmy King.
(c) Mikey Knight.
(d) Johnny Queen.

5. Which of the following poems by Housman does Rushdie reference?
(a) “The Land of Confusion.”
(b) “The Land of Found Content.”
(c) “The Land of Discontent.”
(d) “The Land of Lost Content.”

Short Answer Questions

1. For what virtue does Rushdie commend Harold Pinter?

2. As which of the following does Rushdie gloss"khalaas"?

3. As which of the following does Rushdie explain Heraclitus’s idea of daimon?

4. To which of the following does Rushdie compare Joseph Heller?

5. With which of the following does Rushdie note Roth lived?

Short Essay Questions

1. Paraphrase Roth’s reported comment to Remnick about setting a novel in a therapist’s office?

2. What does Rushdie remark the phase “so it goes” is used to euphemize?

3. What, from context, does Rushdie mean by saying “English, I understood, could be chutnified” (91)?

4. Why does Rushdie assert that visitors to New York City feel they know it when they arrive there?

5. What lessons does Rushdie find in the story of Orpheus and Eurydice?

6. For what reason does Carlos Fuentes remark that Latin American writers hesitate to use the word “solitude”?

7. Why do the deaths of Cervantes and Shakespeare occur on the same date but not the same day?

8. Why does Rushdie note that the Philip Roth Lecture he gives takes Roth as its topic?

9. Why does Rushdie note he initially resisted reading One Hundred Years of Solitude?

10. For what reason does Rushdie report Scheherazade pled for her life to be spared by her husband?

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