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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 is Coalhouse Walker a character?
(a) Andrew’s Brain.
(b) World’s Fair.
(c) Ragtime.
(d) Loon Lake.
2. In which London neighborhood did Rushdie live while working part-time in advertising?
(a) Camden Town.
(b) Belsize Park.
(c) Kentish Town.
(d) Islington.
3. In what year does Rushdie note having first read One Hundred Years of Solitude?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1974.
4. At which of the following English schools did Rushdie board?
(a) Wycliffe School.
(b) Rugby School.
(c) Oakham School.
(d) Eton College.
5. Which of the following poems by Housman does Rushdie reference?
(a) “The Land of Lost Content.”
(b) “The Land of Discontent.”
(c) “The Land of Found Content.”
(d) “The Land of Confusion.”
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of Rushdie’s novels does he note Philip Roth read?
2. In which of the following of Jonson’s works does Rushdie note having acted?
3. What message does Vonnegut’s work assert is encoded in Stonehenge?
4. Which of the following authors The Witch Must Die?
5. How large an advance did Rushdie receive for his first published novel?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Rushdie note was his first attraction to Thousand Nights and One Night?
2. What idea about Shakespeare does Rushdie ascribe to Howard Brenton?
3. What was Rushdie’s last assignment as a student journalist?
4. Paraphrase Roth’s reported comment to Remnick about setting a novel in a therapist’s office?
5. What does Rushdie remark the phase “so it goes” is used to euphemize?
6. Why does Rushdie assert that visitors to New York City feel they know it when they arrive there?
7. What is the central conceit of Now It Can Be Told?
8. Why do the deaths of Cervantes and Shakespeare occur on the same date but not the same day?
9. Why does Rushdie note he initially resisted reading One Hundred Years of Solitude?
10. In what way does Rushdie contrast the animal fables of “the Eastern canon” with those represented by Aesop?
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