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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 gloss "shanti"?
(a) Done for.
(b) Peace.
(c) Suspect.
(d) Ramshackle.
2. Which of the following does Rushdie note having written for his son?
(a) Shalimar the Clown.
(b) Quichotte.
(c) Luka and the Fire of Life.
(d) Midnight’s Children.
3. How many deaths does Rushdie attribute to Shahryar and Shah Zaman in total?
(a) 2,213.
(b) 4,215.
(c) 3,214.
(d) 1,212.
4. Which of the following does Rushdie note Kundera ignores?
(a) Huckleberry Finn.
(b) Clarissa.
(c) Don Quixote.
(d) Tristram Shandy.
5. In what year did Heller publish Catch-22?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1961.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following is Rushdie’s first published novel?
2. Which of the following authors does Rushdie note having read?
3. Which of the following is noted as the original title of the Thousand Nights and One Night?
4. To which of the following is the anthology dedicated?
5. To which of the following does Rushdie report his parents moved?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Rushdie’s last assignment as a student journalist?
2. In what way does Rushdie contrast the animal fables of “the Eastern canon” with those represented by Aesop?
3. For what reason does Rushdie report Scheherazade pled for her life to be spared by her husband?
4. What does Rushdie assert that falling in love with stories awakens in children?
5. Why does Rushdie note he initially resisted reading One Hundred Years of Solitude?
6. Why does Rushdie assert that visitors to New York City feel they know it when they arrive there?
7. Why does Rushdie note that the Philip Roth Lecture he gives takes Roth as its topic?
8. What lessons does Rushdie find in the story of Orpheus and Eurydice?
9. What does Heraclitus’s fragment 121 say?
10. What, from context, does Rushdie mean by saying “English, I understood, could be chutnified” (91)?
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