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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 note Kundera ignores?
(a) Tristram Shandy.
(b) Don Quixote.
(c) Clarissa.
(d) Huckleberry Finn.

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

3. What meaning is ascribed to the name Scheherazade?
(a) Clever-tongued.
(b) Insightful.
(c) City-born.
(d) Far-seeing.

4. Which of the following is posited to have written Don Quixote?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Walter Raleigh.
(c) Francis Bacon.
(d) Roger Ascham.

5. As which of the following does Rushdie explain Heraclitus’s idea of ethos?
(a) Assertion of considered reason.
(b) Way of being in the world.
(c) Overarching cultural story about the culture.
(d) Guiding principle that shapes one’s life.

Short Answer Questions

1. As which of the following does Rushdie translate sophos?

2. In which city was Vonnegut imprisoned?

3. To which of the following is Shakespeare’s authorship ascribed?

4. In what translation does Rushdie note having first read One Hundred Years of Solitude?

5. Which of the following does Rushdie note translated the Thousand Nights and One Night?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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