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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 which of the following does “Introduction to The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. IV” begin?
(a) “Before there were books, there were stories.”
(b) “I once asked a maker of fine gold jewelry why she only worked in such an expensive material.”
(c) “India, in the mid-sixteenth century.”
(d) “What, art thou mad? Art thou mad?”

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

3. Which of the following prevails upon Clinton to meet personally with Rushdie?
(a) Mark Gearan.
(b) Rahm Emmanuel.
(c) Charles Gibson.
(d) George Stephanopoulos.

4. Which of the following dystopian authors does Rushdie reference?
(a) Atwood.
(b) St. John Mandel.
(c) Dashner.
(d) Brown.

5. To which of the following does Rushdie compare Vyasa?
(a) Virgil.
(b) Spenser.
(c) Milton.
(d) Homer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Rushdie cite against sloth?

2. In what year does Rushdie first encounter Muhammad Ali?

3. In what year did Dickens die?

4. Which of the following does Rushdie note was the first exhibit in the Great Turbine Hall at London’s Tate Modern gallery?

5. Who was *president* of PEN America in 2004?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Rushdie define adaptation?

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

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

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

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

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