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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 authors The Witch Must Die?

2. In which of the following of Jonson’s works does Rushdie note having acted?

3. Which of the following does Rushdie note having written for his son?

4. With which of the following does Part One end?

5. What literary agency do Rushdie and Roth share?

Short Essay Questions

1. What answer to the question of difficult reading does Rushdie propose?

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

3. What does Heraclitus’s fragment 121 say?

4. What idea about Shakespeare does Rushdie ascribe to Howard Brenton?

5. What reason for enjoying Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” does Rushdie note?

6. How does Rushdie report Slaughterhouse-Five presents war?

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

8. Why is Rushdie grateful for the mixed reception of his first published novel?

9. What, from context, does Rushdie mean by saying “English, I understood, could be chutnified” (91)?

10. Why do the deaths of Cervantes and Shakespeare occur on the same date but not the same day?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Rushdie himself raises the question of the appropriateness of biographical criticism. How apt is it to the anthology? What in the anthology indicates as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

What function does the back matter in the anthology serve? How is that function performed?

Essay Topic 3

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the anthology, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

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