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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. What is the name of the first cow to appear in Norse myth?
(a) Brunhild.
(b) Ymir.
(c) Audumla.
(d) Buri.
2. Which of Rushdie’s fellow students died in school in Bombay?
(a) Mikey Knight.
(b) Johnny Queen.
(c) Dave Prince.
(d) Jimmy King.
3. Which of the following does Rushdie note Kundera ignores?
(a) Tristram Shandy.
(b) Clarissa.
(c) Huckleberry Finn.
(d) Don Quixote.
4. Which of the following does Rushdie note translated the Thousand Nights and One Night?
(a) Jakob Grimm.
(b) Francis Perrault.
(c) Antoine Galland.
(d) Andrew Lang.
5. As which of the following does Rushdie explain Heraclitus’s idea of ethos?
(a) Assertion of considered reason.
(b) Overarching cultural story about the culture.
(c) Way of being in the world.
(d) Guiding principle that shapes one’s life.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whose translation of Don Quixote does Rushdie favor?
2. As which of the following does Rushdie translate sophos?
3. With which of the following does Part One end?
4. In what year does Rushdie note having first read Slaughterhouse-Five?
5. In what year does Rushdie note having first read One Hundred Years of Solitude?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Rushdie note it took him so long to write his second published novel as it did?
2. What does Rushdie note struck him most on his first reading of Portnoy’s Complaint?
3. In what way does Rushdie contrast the animal fables of “the Eastern canon” with those represented by Aesop?
4. Why does Rushdie assert that visitors to New York City feel they know it when they arrive there?
5. How does Rushdie define childhood in “Heraclitus” (57)?
6. For what reason does Rushdie report Scheherazade pled for her life to be spared by her husband?
7. What, from context, does Rushdie mean by saying “English, I understood, could be chutnified” (91)?
8. What does Rushdie remark the phase “so it goes” is used to euphemize?
9. What was Rushdie’s last assignment as a student journalist?
10. What idea about Shakespeare does Rushdie ascribe to Howard Brenton?
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