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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 assumed to be objectionable by those who have not read or viewed it?

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

3. Which of the following does Rushdie observe received a Nobel Prize?

4. Which of the following argued in 1986 that “literature is not an equal-opportunity employer” (221)?

5. What sculptor does Rushdie suggest for Saligia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Paraphrase the remark by EB White about writing to children that Rushdie reports.

2. How does Rushdie differentiate a “historical” fact from a “basic” fact?

3. How does Rushdie describe Slothrop?

4. How does Rushdie define the “given” with which authors must contend?

5. What final gift does Rushdie note being able to offer Hitchens?

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

7. How does Rushdie propose readers fight against censorship and artistic repression?

8. Why does Rushdie argue that the Hinduism of the BJP is not true Hinduism?

9. In what does Rushdie situate the origin of auteur theory?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

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?

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