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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 fantasy authors does Rushdie reference?
2. With which of the following does Part One end?
3. Which of the following authors does Rushdie note having read?
4. Which of the following does Rushdie report being among his father’s library?
5. At which of the following English schools did Rushdie board?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Rushdie note was his first attraction to Thousand Nights and One Night?
2. What idea about Shakespeare does Rushdie ascribe to Howard Brenton?
3. Why does Rushdie note that the Philip Roth Lecture he gives takes Roth as its topic?
4. How does Rushdie define childhood in “Heraclitus” (57)?
5. What is the central conceit of Now It Can Be Told?
6. Why does Rushdie note he initially resisted reading One Hundred Years of Solitude?
7. What reason for enjoying Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” does Rushdie note?
8. What, from context, does Rushdie mean by saying “English, I understood, could be chutnified” (91)?
9. In what way does Rushdie contrast the animal fables of “the Eastern canon” with those represented by Aesop?
10. What effect does Rushdie note of Romanian orphans having no access to stories?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does Rushdie gain from disparaging the works of other writers? That is, what effect is created by his doing so, and how does it work to the advantage of the anthology?
Essay Topic 2
Assuming that Languages of Truth should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
What does Rushdie gain from commending the works of other writers? That is, what effect is created by his doing so, and how does it work to the advantage of the anthology?
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