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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 argued in 1986 that “literature is not an equal-opportunity employer” (221)?
(a) Nadine Gordimer.
(b) Margaret Atwood.
(c) Salman Rushdie.
(d) Susan Sontag.

2. Which of the following resources does Rushdie note Sondheim as using?
(a) Songwriting for Dummies.
(b) Roget’s Thesaurus.
(c) Elements of Style.
(d) Robert’s Rules of Order.

3. Where was a statue of Catherine of Braganza planned to be erected?
(a) Astoria.
(b) Sunnyside.
(c) Hunters Point.
(d) Dutch Kills.

4. What writer does Rushdie note denies desire to understand other writers’ processes?
(a) VS Naipaul.
(b) Bharati Mukherjee.
(c) Nuruddin Farah.
(d) Salman Rushdie.

5. Of what city’s organized crime does Roberto Saviano write?
(a) Rome.
(b) Padua.
(c) Naples.
(d) Venice.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many Academy Awards does Rushdie note The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was nominated?

2. Which of the following does Rushdie note adapts Jan Potocki?

3. To which of the following is Hitchens’s mind compared?

4. Which of the following remarks that “India is no longer India” (233)?

5. What ranking among ArtReview’s list of powerful figures in the art world did Ai Weiwei hold?

Short Essay Questions

1. Paraphrase the remark by EB White about writing to children that Rushdie reports.

2. What does Rushdie note caused the characters drawn from his biography to come alive?

3. How does Rushdie define the “given” with which authors must contend?

4. What final gift does Rushdie note being able to offer Hitchens?

5. What does Rushdie note is the wrong answer to give when asked about autobiographical fiction?

6. How does Rushdie propose readers fight against censorship and artistic repression?

7. What three countries does Rushdie comment that he has “spent [his] life caring about” (211)?

8. Paraphrase the question Rushdie asks Saul Bellow at PEN America in 1986?

9. What does Rushdie call the most ancient question (180)?

10. What choice does Rushdie note is required to produce Othello?

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