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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. At which of the following universities did Rushdie study?
(a) University of Edinburgh.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Imperial College London.

2. Which of the following fantasy authors does Rushdie reference?
(a) Hobb.
(b) Hughes.
(c) McKillip.
(d) Le Guin.

3. Which of the following comments that “The cruelest thing anyone can do with Portnoy’s Complaint is read it twice” (88)?
(a) John Howe.
(b) Irving Howe.
(c) John Berlin.
(d) Irving Berlin.

4. What message does Vonnegut’s work assert is encoded in Stonehenge?
(a) “You will be on your way before you know it.”
(b) “Replacement part being rushed with all possible speed.”
(c) “Pack up your things and be ready to leave on short notice.”
(d) “Be patient. We haven’t forgotten you.”

5. Which of the following is attributed to Edward Bond?
(a) Damned.
(b) Saved.
(c) Blessed.
(d) Cursed.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which of the following does Rushdie note the Ramayana is adapted?

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

3. Which of the following authors The Witch Must Die?

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

5. The phrase “sui generis” most nearly means which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Heraclitus’s fragment 121 say?

3. Why does Rushdie assert that visitors to New York City feel they know it when they arrive there?

4. Paraphrase Roth’s reported comment to Remnick about setting a novel in a therapist’s office?

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

6. Why does Rushdie note it took him so long to write his second published novel as it did?

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

8. What does Rushdie remark the phase “so it goes” is used to euphemize?

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

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

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