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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 is attributed to Edward Bond?
(a) Damned.
(b) Blessed.
(c) Cursed.
(d) Saved.

2. With which of the following does Part One end?
(a) “…once you have found your wings, you fly.”
(b) “I am proud to receive an award named for Harold Pinter, a great writer, a great citizen, and a great friend in need.”
(c) “And in our age of oversimplification, this beautiful complication has never been more important.”
(d) “Happy Commencement Day.”

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What ranking does Slaughterhouse-Five enjoy in the Modern Library’s list of the best English-language novels of the twentieth century?

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

3. As which of the following does Rushdie define “amrita”?

4. To what literary device does Rushdie suggest García Márquez is prone?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Heraclitus’s fragment 121 say?

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

6. Why do the deaths of Cervantes and Shakespeare occur on the same date but not the same day?

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

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

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

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

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