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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. On whom does Rushdie note Harper Lee’s Dill is based?
(a) Perry Edward Smith.
(b) Truman Capote.
(c) Peter Falk.
(d) Tennessee Williams.

2. With which of the following does the first essay of the section, “Truth,” begin?
(a) “What, art thou mad? Art thou mad?”
(b) “The last time I heard from Philip Roth was in October 2017.”
(c) “India, in the mid-sixteenth century.”
(d) “Before there were books, there were stories.”

3. In the context of discussing Muhammad Ali, the word “hagiography” most nearly means which of the following?
(a) Laughing-earth writing.
(b) Shame-writing.
(c) Hag-writing.
(d) Praise-writing.

4. Which of the following does Rushdie note transferred control of Bombay to England?
(a) India.
(b) France.
(c) Spain.
(d) Portugal.

5. Which of the following does Rushdie note was the first exhibit in the Great Turbine Hall at London’s Tate Modern gallery?
(a) Fons Americanus.
(b) Sunflower Seeds.
(c) Marsyas.
(d) Maman.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade does Rushdie posit the human population of India exceeded the divine?

2. Which of the following reality shows does Rushdie note invited him to appear?

3. Who was *CEO* of PEN America in 2004?

4. Of what city’s organized crime does Roberto Saviano write?

5. In what year does Saligia first appear in writing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Rushdie differentiate a “historical” fact from a “basic” fact?

3. What does Rushdie note as a reason the interviews in the Paris Review are worth attention?

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

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

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

7. In what does Rushdie situate the origin of auteur theory?

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

9. What justification does Rushdie see used to condemn artists in India and the United States?

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

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