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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 cite in protest of a proposed UK law that would have forbidden criticizing religion?

2. For how many Academy Awards does Rushdie note The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was nominated?

3. Which of the following does Rushdie note adapts Jan Potocki?

4. In the context of discussing Muhammad Ali, the word “hagiography” most nearly means which of the following?

5. How many Academy Awards does Rushdie note The Curious Case of Benjamin Button won?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Rushdie note caused the characters drawn from his biography to come alive?

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

5. For what reason was Sunflower Seeds cordoned off from the public?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the name of any one fictional character named in the text.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

To what genre other than essay anthology might Languages of Truth be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

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