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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. To which of the following does Rushdie compare Vyasa?
2. Which of the following does Rushdie note is assumed to be objectionable by those who have not read or viewed it?
3. Which of the following remarks that “India is no longer India” (233)?
4. Which of the following argued in 1986 that “literature is not an equal-opportunity employer” (221)?
5. Which of the following resources does Rushdie note Sondheim as using?
Short Essay Questions
1. To what does Rushdie ascribe the closeness of his friendship with Christopher Hitchens?
2. Paraphrase the question Rushdie asks Saul Bellow at PEN America in 1986?
3. Paraphrase the remark by EB White about writing to children that Rushdie reports.
4. How does Rushdie propose readers fight against censorship and artistic repression?
5. What does Rushdie note is the right answer to give when asked about autobiographical fiction?
6. What three countries does Rushdie comment that he has “spent [his] life caring about” (211)?
7. How does Rushdie define the “given” with which authors must contend?
8. What justification does Rushdie see used to condemn artists in India and the United States?
9. What does Rushdie call “the final victory of the censor” (228)?
10. How does Rushdie explain the American preoccupation with religion?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
If the anthology were a work of fiction and nothing else about the work were changed, how reliable would the narrator be? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Explicate the significance of the name of any one fictional character named in the text.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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