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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. Who was *CEO* of PEN America in 2004?
(a) Salman Rushdie.
(b) Norman Mailer.
(c) Mike Roberts.
(d) Gore Vidal.
2. In what decade does Rushdie posit the human population of India exceeded the divine?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1920s.
3. Which of the following sins does Rushdie claim is worst?
(a) Pride.
(b) Envy.
(c) Sloth.
(d) Wrath.
4. Which of the following does Rushdie cite as an example of a courageous politician?
(a) Nelson Mandela.
(b) Graça Machel.
(c) Thabo Mbeki.
(d) Desmond Tutu.
5. In what year did Dickens die?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1828.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1842.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following reality shows does Rushdie note invited him to appear?
2. Which of the following does Rushdie cite in protest of a proposed UK law that would have forbidden criticizing religion?
3. Who was invited to speak at the opening ceremony of the 1986 PEN America event?
4. Which of the following does Rushdie call “The first great writer I knew” (158)?
5. Which of the following does Rushdie note transferred control of Bombay to England?
Short Essay Questions
1. Paraphrase the remark by EB White about writing to children that Rushdie reports.
2. Paraphrase the question Rushdie asks Saul Bellow at PEN America in 1986?
3. How does Rushdie define the “given” with which authors must contend?
4. To what does Rushdie ascribe the closeness of his friendship with Christopher Hitchens?
5. What justification does Rushdie see used to condemn artists in India and the United States?
6. Why does Rushdie note admiring Susan Orlean in regards to Adaptation?
7. What does Rushdie note caused the characters drawn from his biography to come alive?
8. How does Rushdie differentiate a “historical” fact from a “basic” fact?
9. What final gift does Rushdie note being able to offer Hitchens?
10. What does Rushdie note as a reason the interviews in the Paris Review are worth attention?
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