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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) Saved.
(c) Cursed.
(d) Blessed.
2. With which of the following does the first essay in Part Two begin?
(a) “The last time I heard from Philip Roth was in October 2017.”
(b) “I once asked a maker of fine gold jewelry why she only worked in such an expensive material.”
(c) “India, in the mid-sixteenth century.”
(d) “What, art thou mad? Art thou mad?”
3. Which of the following is attributed to Edward Bond?
(a) Hubbard.
(b) MacDonald.
(c) Bingo.
(d) Canasta.
4. At which of the following English schools did Rushdie board?
(a) Wycliffe School.
(b) Oakham School.
(c) Rugby School.
(d) Eton College.
5. In which of the following of Jonson’s works does Rushdie note having acted?
(a) Volpone.
(b) The Alchemist.
(c) The Devil Is an Ass.
(d) Eastward Hoe.
Short Answer Questions
1. In which of the following districts of Bombay does Rushdie report having lived?
2. In what year does Rushdie note having first read Slaughterhouse-Five?
3. Which of the following is posited to have written Don Quixote?
4. Which of the following does Rushdie report is considered Roth’s best novel?
5. As which of the following does Rushdie rename Death?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Rushdie assert that visitors to New York City feel they know it when they arrive there?
2. Paraphrase Roth’s reported comment to Remnick about setting a novel in a therapist’s office?
3. What does Rushdie assert that falling in love with stories awakens in children?
4. Why is Rushdie grateful for the mixed reception of his first published novel?
5. How does Rushdie define childhood in “Heraclitus” (57)?
6. What was Rushdie’s last assignment as a student journalist?
7. For what reason does Carlos Fuentes remark that Latin American writers hesitate to use the word “solitude”?
8. What, from context, does Rushdie mean by saying “English, I understood, could be chutnified” (91)?
9. What does Rushdie remark the phase “so it goes” is used to euphemize?
10. To what does the “Lakshman rekha” refer?
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