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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. Which of the following does Rushdie note translated the Thousand Nights and One Night?
2. In what year does Rushdie note having first read Portnoy’s Complaint?
3. From which of the following does Rushdie note borrowing?
4. For what virtue does Rushdie commend Harold Pinter?
5. At which of the following universities did Rushdie study?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Rushdie’s last assignment as a student journalist?
2. For what reason does Rushdie report Scheherazade pled for her life to be spared by her husband?
3. For what reason does Carlos Fuentes remark that Latin American writers hesitate to use the word “solitude”?
4. In what way does Rushdie contrast the animal fables of “the Eastern canon” with those represented by Aesop?
5. Why does Rushdie assert that visitors to New York City feel they know it when they arrive there?
6. What does Rushdie identify as the primary value of the protean in literature?
7. What does Rushdie note was his first attraction to Thousand Nights and One Night?
8. Why does Rushdie note that the Philip Roth Lecture he gives takes Roth as its topic?
9. What does Rushdie assert that falling in love with stories awakens in children?
10. Why does Rushdie note it took him so long to write his second published novel as it did?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sources attest to the presence of Languages of Truth on bestseller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the type of text? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Rushdie is noted mostly as an author of fiction. Does his collection of essays suggest his fiction will be worthwhile for you to read? Why or why not? How or how not?
Essay Topic 3
Explicate the significance of the name of any one fictional character named in the text.
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