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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 is a friend of his?

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 of Rushdie’s characters does he admit is autobiographical?

4. Which of the following does Rushdie cite in protest of a proposed UK law that would have forbidden criticizing religion?

5. In which year does Rushdie note the Indian Uprising occurred?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rushdie note is the wrong answer to give when asked about autobiographical fiction?

2. Why does Rushdie note admiring Susan Orlean in regards to Adaptation?

3. What three countries does Rushdie comment that he has “spent [his] life caring about” (211)?

4. What choice does Rushdie note is required to produce Othello?

5. Paraphrase the question Rushdie asks Saul Bellow at PEN America in 1986?

6. What does Rushdie note is the right answer to give when asked about autobiographical fiction?

7. Why does Rushdie posit that the United States tolerates Pakistan’s quiet hosting of terrorist groups and figures?

8. What does Rushdie call “the final victory of the censor” (228)?

9. How does Rushdie explain the American preoccupation with religion?

10. What does Rushdie note as a reason the interviews in the Paris Review are worth attention?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in Languages of Truth? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the anthology supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

Essay Topic 2

In the anthology, some individuals are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the book? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the book? How does Languages of Truth bear as much out?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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