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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. In which of the following districts of Bombay does Rushdie report having lived?
(a) Breach Candy.
(b) Tardeo.
(c) Malabar Hill.
(d) Byculla.

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

3. In which of the following of Jonson’s works does Rushdie note having acted?
(a) Eastward Hoe.
(b) The Devil Is an Ass.
(c) The Alchemist.
(d) Volpone.

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

5. How many days pass for Shahryar and Shah Zaman between their revenge for cuckoldry and their marriages to Scheherazade and Dunyazad?
(a) 1,095.
(b) 1,189.
(c) 1,001.
(d) 907.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Rushdie report having met Eudora Welty?

2. Which of the following is noted as the original title of the Thousand Nights and One Night?

3. Which of the following does Rushdie use as a name for Chicago?

4. As which of the following does Rushdie gloss "rutputty"?

5. Which of Rushdie’s fellow students died in school in Bombay?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What, from context, does Rushdie mean by saying “English, I understood, could be chutnified” (91)?

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

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

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

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

7. What is the central conceit of Now It Can Be Told?

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

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

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

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