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

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

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

4. How many deaths does Rushdie attribute to Shahryar and Shah Zaman before their marriages to Scheherazade and Dunyazad?
(a) 2,213.
(b) 4,215.
(c) 1,212.
(d) 3,214.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Rushdie note having first read One Hundred Years of Solitude?

2. What does Rushdie note was her preferred bookseller in Cambridge?

3. In what year does Rushdie note having first read Slaughterhouse-Five?

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

5. In which city was Vonnegut imprisoned?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What effect does Rushdie note of Romanian orphans having no access to stories?

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

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

10. What was Rushdie’s last assignment as a student journalist?

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