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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 does Rushdie report is considered Roth’s best novel?
(a) The Ghost Writer.
(b) Indignation.
(c) Sabbath’s Theater.
(d) The Great American Novel.

2. As which of the following does Rushdie define “amrita”?
(a) Tincture of eternity.
(b) Elixir of delight.
(c) Nectar of immortality.
(d) Draught of somnolence.

3. From which of the following does Rushdie note borrowing?
(a) Brihat Katha.
(b) Katha Sarit Sagara.
(c) Mudra Raksasha.
(d) Artha Shastra.

4. As which of the following does Rushdie translate sophos?
(a) Awareness.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Charisma.

5. What is the name of the first cow to appear in Norse myth?
(a) Buri.
(b) Brunhild.
(c) Audumla.
(d) Ymir.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of Rushdie’s novels does he note Philip Roth read?

3. As which of the following does Rushdie rename Death?

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

5. With which of the following does Part One end?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In what way does Rushdie contrast the animal fables of “the Eastern canon” with those represented by Aesop?

7. What does Rushdie assert that falling in love with stories awakens in children?

8. What does Rushdie note struck him most on his first reading of Portnoy’s Complaint?

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

10. What does Rushdie note was his first attraction to Thousand Nights and One Night?

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