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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. The phrase “sui generis” most nearly means which of the following?
(a) Derivative.
(b) Original.
(c) Engaging.
(d) Dull.
2. How many deaths does Rushdie attribute to Shahryar and Shah Zaman before their marriages to Scheherazade and Dunyazad?
(a) 4,215.
(b) 1,212.
(c) 2,213.
(d) 3,214.
3. As which of the following does Rushdie gloss "rutputty"?
(a) Peace.
(b) Ramshackle.
(c) Done for.
(d) Suspect.
4. In what year does Rushdie report having met Eudora Welty?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1982.
5. How large an advance did Rushdie receive for his first published novel?
(a) £900.
(b) £700.
(c) £300.
(d) £500.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following is noted as the original title of the Thousand Nights and One Night?
2. In which of the following districts of Bombay does Rushdie report having lived?
3. In which of the following does Rushdie note the Ramayana is adapted?
4. To which of the following is the anthology dedicated?
5. What meaning is ascribed to the name Scheherazade?
Short Essay Questions
1. Paraphrase Roth’s reported comment to Remnick about setting a novel in a therapist’s office?
2. What lessons does Rushdie find in the story of Orpheus and Eurydice?
3. Why is Rushdie grateful for the mixed reception of his first published novel?
4. What does Heraclitus’s fragment 121 say?
5. Why does Rushdie note that the Philip Roth Lecture he gives takes Roth as its topic?
6. What does Rushdie identify as the primary value of the protean in literature?
7. What does Rushdie note struck him most on his first reading of Portnoy’s Complaint?
8. How does Rushdie report Slaughterhouse-Five presents war?
9. Why does Rushdie note it took him so long to write his second published novel as it did?
10. What was Rushdie’s last assignment as a student journalist?
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