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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. Rushdie notes that Osama bin Laden died just after which of the following observances?
(a) Walpurgisnacht.
(b) Ramadan.
(c) Pentecost.
(d) Beltane.

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

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

4. How does Rushdie gloss the term “Trümmerliteratur”?
(a) “Truthful literature.”
(b) “Rubble literature.”
(c) “Stomach literature.”
(d) “Drummer literature.”

5. Which of Hans Christian Andersen’s stories does Rushdie regard as his best?
(a) “The Shadow.”
(b) “The Snow Queen.”
(c) “The Little Mermaid.”
(d) “The Tinder Box.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Rushdie note is assumed to be objectionable by those who have not read or viewed it?

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

3. With which of the following does Rushdie note Hitchens became enamored?

4. Where was a statue of Catherine of Braganza planned to be erected?

5. Which of the following argued in 1986 that “literature is not an equal-opportunity employer” (221)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rushdie argue that the Hinduism of the BJP is not true Hinduism?

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

3. Why does Rushdie note admiring Susan Orlean in regards to Adaptation?

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

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

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

7. For what reason was Sunflower Seeds cordoned off from the public?

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

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

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

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