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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. Alongside which of the following was Rushdie invited to an Australian atheist event?
(a) Daniel Dennett.
(b) Sam Harris.
(c) David Chalmers.
(d) Linda LaScola.

2. What ranking among ArtReview’s list of powerful figures in the art world did Ai Weiwei hold?
(a) 7th.
(b) 13th.
(c) 9th.
(d) 11th.

3. In what year does Rushdie note the Great Turbine Hall at London’s Tate Modern gallery opened?
(a) 2000.
(b) 2010.
(c) 2019.
(d) 2002.

4. Which of the following does Rushdie observe received a Nobel Prize?
(a) Barack Obama.
(b) Bob Dylan.
(c) Liu Xiaobo.
(d) Seamus Heaney.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following came to the PEN World Voiced festival from Brooklyn?

2. In the context of discussing Muhammad Ali, the word “hagiography” most nearly means which of the following?

3. Who is known as the “Mama of Dada” (176)?

4. Which of the following of Rushdie’s characters does he admit is autobiographical?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Rushdie call “the final victory of the censor” (228)?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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