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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what year does Rushdie note having first read Slaughterhouse-Five?
2. To which of the following does Rushdie report his parents moved?
3. Which of the following is reported as saying “a novel is a long prose narrative that has something wrong with it” (35)?
4. As which of the following does Rushdie define “amrita”?
5. As which of the following does Rushdie translate sophos?
Short Essay Questions
1. What idea about Shakespeare does Rushdie ascribe to Howard Brenton?
2. What does Rushdie assert that falling in love with stories awakens in children?
3. Why do the deaths of Cervantes and Shakespeare occur on the same date but not the same day?
4. What was Rushdie’s last assignment as a student journalist?
5. What answer to the question of difficult reading does Rushdie propose?
6. Paraphrase Roth’s reported comment to Remnick about setting a novel in a therapist’s office?
7. For what reason does Rushdie report Scheherazade pled for her life to be spared by her husband?
8. How does Rushdie define childhood in “Heraclitus” (57)?
9. How does Rushdie report Slaughterhouse-Five presents war?
10. For what reason does Carlos Fuentes remark that Latin American writers hesitate to use the word “solitude”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Rushdie’s narrative voice change across the essays? What effect on the reader do the changes have? How is that effect achieved?
Essay Topic 2
What literary reference is the most important of Languages of Truth? How does the anthology support such an assertion?
Essay Topic 3
To what other writer’s work in your experience does Rushdie’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?
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