View a FREE sample

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 having written for his son?

2. As which of the following does Rushdie translate sophos?

3. In which of the following districts of Bombay does Rushdie report having lived?

4. With which of the following does the first essay in Part Two begin?

5. To which of the following does Rushdie compare Philip Roth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rushdie assert that falling in love with stories awakens in children?

2. What lessons does Rushdie find in the story of Orpheus and Eurydice?

3. What is the central conceit of Now It Can Be Told?

4. Paraphrase Roth’s reported comment to Remnick about setting a novel in a therapist’s office?

5. What does Rushdie remark the phase “so it goes” is used to euphemize?

6. What does Rushdie note struck him most on his first reading of Portnoy’s Complaint?

7. Why does Rushdie note it took him so long to write his second published novel as it did?

8. For what reason does Rushdie report Scheherazade pled for her life to be spared by her husband?

9. What was Rushdie’s last assignment as a student journalist?

10. What does Rushdie note was his first attraction to Thousand Nights and One Night?

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

In “Heraclitus,” Rushdie asserts “These are the four roots of the self: language, place, community, custom” (58). Does your experience bear out the assertion? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the name of any one fictional character named in the text.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 614 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample