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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 the following does Rushdie identify as working in Roth’s tradition?
(a) Kevin Hart.
(b) Keenan Ivory Wayans.
(c) Dave Chappelle.
(d) Jordan Peele.

2. To which of the following does Rushdie compare himself?
(a) John Updike.
(b) Saul Bellow.
(c) Martin Amis.
(d) Adam Bellow.

3. Which of the following does Rushdie note translated the Thousand Nights and One Night?
(a) Andrew Lang.
(b) Antoine Galland.
(c) Francis Perrault.
(d) Jakob Grimm.

4. Which of the following characters does Rushdie reference?
(a) FitzChivalry Farseer.
(b) Bilbo Baggins.
(c) Elijah Baley.
(d) Thomas Covenant.

5. To which of the following does Rushdie report his parents moved?
(a) Lahore.
(b) Rajkot.
(c) Karachi.
(d) Islamabad.

Short Answer Questions

1. As which of the following does Rushdie rename Death?

2. Which of the following comments that “The cruelest thing anyone can do with Portnoy’s Complaint is read it twice” (88)?

3. Which of the following does Rushdie use as a name for Chicago?

4. To which of the following does Rushdie compare Kurt Vonnegut?

5. Which of the following is attributed to Edward Bond?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Rushdie note was his first attraction to Thousand Nights and One Night?

3. What reason for enjoying Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” does Rushdie note?

4. What does Rushdie identify as the primary value of the protean in literature?

5. How does Rushdie report Slaughterhouse-Five presents war?

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

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

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

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

10. What is the central conceit of Now It Can Be Told?

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