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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. Who was president of PEN America in 1986?
2. Which essay does Rushdie note was removed from the Delhi University curriculum?
3. With which of the following does “Introduction to The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. IV” begin?
4. Rushdie notes that Osama bin Laden died just after which of the following observances?
5. Which of the following does Rushdie note is assumed to be objectionable by those who have not read or viewed it?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Rushdie argue that the Hinduism of the BJP is not true Hinduism?
2. Paraphrase the remark by EB White about writing to children that Rushdie reports.
3. What does Rushdie call “the final victory of the censor” (228)?
4. What final gift does Rushdie note being able to offer Hitchens?
5. To what does Rushdie ascribe the closeness of his friendship with Christopher Hitchens?
6. What choice does Rushdie note is required to produce Othello?
7. How does Rushdie define adaptation?
8. What justification does Rushdie see used to condemn artists in India and the United States?
9. What does Rushdie note as a reason the interviews in the Paris Review are worth attention?
10. In what does Rushdie situate the origin of auteur theory?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sources attest to the presence of Languages of Truth on bestseller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the type of text? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
It might be argued that the essays, taken together, comment about what, for Rushdie, is and is not good writing. What vision of good writing can be taken from the text, what in the text supports that vision, and how does it do so?
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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