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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. To what literary device does Rushdie suggest García Márquez is prone?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Laconism.
(c) Litotes.
(d) Periphrasis.

2. Which Kabbalah scholar does Rushdie note condemns Roth’s work?
(a) Gershom Scholem.
(b) Moshe Idel.
(c) Joseph Dan.
(d) Boaz Huss.

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

4. Which of the following is Rushdie’s first published novel?
(a) Grimus.
(b) Midnight’s Children.
(c) The Antagonist.
(d) Madame Rama.

5. To which of the following does Rushdie compare Kurt Vonnegut?
(a) Charlie Chaplin.
(b) Buster Keaton.
(c) Stan Laurel.
(d) Rudolph Valentino.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Rushdie note having written for his son?

2. How many days pass for Shahryar and Shah Zaman between their revenge for cuckoldry and their marriages to Scheherazade and Dunyazad?

3. In what year did Heller publish Catch-22?

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

5. How large an advance did Rushdie receive for his first published novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What answer to the question of difficult reading does Rushdie propose?

2. How does Rushdie define childhood in “Heraclitus” (57)?

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

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

5. In what way does Rushdie contrast the animal fables of “the Eastern canon” with those represented by Aesop?

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

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

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

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

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

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