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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. As which of the following does Rushdie rename Death?
(a) Destroyer of Delights.
(b) Desolator of Domains.
(c) Denigrator of Dynasties.
(d) Deliverer of Destinies.

2. Which of the following authors The Witch Must Die?
(a) Zipes.
(b) Rushdie.
(c) Said.
(d) Cashdan.

3. In what year did Heller publish Catch-22?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1963.

4. Which of the following does Rushdie report being among his father’s library?
(a) The Tribe that Lost Its Head.
(b) The Other Wind.
(c) The Last Dark.
(d) Pride and Prejudice.

5. Which of the following novels does Rushdie reference?
(a) Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
(b) Huckleberry Finn.
(c) Innocents Abroad.
(d) Pudd’nhead Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Rushdie’s fellow students died in school in Bombay?

2. To which of the following does Rushdie report his parents moved?

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

4. Which of the following poems by Housman does Rushdie reference?

5. How many deaths does Rushdie attribute to Shahryar and Shah Zaman before their marriages to Scheherazade and Dunyazad?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rushdie assert that falling in love with stories awakens in children?

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

3. What does Rushdie note struck him most on his first reading of Portnoy’s Complaint?

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

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

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

7. Why does Rushdie note it took him so long to write his second published novel as it did?

8. Why is Rushdie grateful for the mixed reception of his first published novel?

9. To what does the “Lakshman rekha” refer?

10. What idea about Shakespeare does Rushdie ascribe to Howard Brenton?

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