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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. With what did China charge Ai Weiwei?
(a) Trafficking.
(b) Sedition.
(c) Jaywalking.
(d) Tax crimes.
2. Who was president of PEN America in 1986?
(a) Gore Vidal.
(b) Norman Mailer.
(c) Salman Rushdie.
(d) Mike Roberts.
3. With which of the following does Part Two end?
(a) “Happy Commencement Day.”
(b) “…once you have found your wings, you fly.”
(c) “I prefer not to.”
(d) “And in our age of oversimplification, this beautiful complication has never been more important.”
4. Rushdie notes that Osama bin Laden died just after which of the following observances?
(a) Pentecost.
(b) Beltane.
(c) Ramadan.
(d) Walpurgisnacht.
5. Which of the following wrote “Stalin Epigram” in 1933?
(a) Sakharov.
(b) Solzhenitsyn.
(c) Mandelstam.
(d) Akhmatova.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following does Rushdie cite against sloth?
2. Which of the following does Rushdie note as an exception to the maxim that film adaptations of books make bad movies?
3. With which of the following does Part Three end?
4. Which of the following does Rushdie note was the first exhibit in the Great Turbine Hall at London’s Tate Modern gallery?
5. With which of the following does “Introduction to The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. IV” begin?
Short Essay Questions
1. What choice does Rushdie note is required to produce Othello?
2. What does Rushdie note is the right answer to give when asked about autobiographical fiction?
3. In what does Rushdie situate the origin of auteur theory?
4. Why does Rushdie argue that the Hinduism of the BJP is not true Hinduism?
5. Why does Rushdie note admiring Susan Orlean in regards to Adaptation?
6. How does Rushdie define the “given” with which authors must contend?
7. Paraphrase the remark by EB White about writing to children that Rushdie reports.
8. How does Rushdie differentiate a “historical” fact from a “basic” fact?
9. What does Rushdie call “the final victory of the censor” (228)?
10. What does Rushdie note is the wrong answer to give when asked about autobiographical fiction?
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