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As everyone knows, Salman Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses" contains an unflattering portrait of the prophet Mohammed. What other religious leader is also parodied in the book?
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Salman Rushdie's novel Shame is intended as an allegory on which Asian country?
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Salman Rushdie won the special "Booker of Bookers" award for which of his novels?
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After a Fatwah had been pronounced with regard to novelist Salman Rushdie, which 2007 event newly sparked anger centering on him in parts of the Muslim world?
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Which of the following books by Salman Rushdie is not a work of fiction?
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In Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, which of the following are characteristics of the young Doctor Aadam Aziz?
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Which Salman Rushdie novel famously earned him a fatwa from the then Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini?
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4422 times (79.0%) |
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How does joy smell, according to Saleem Sinai in Rushdie's Midnight's Children?
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171 times |
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39 times (12.6%) |
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132 times (42.6%) |
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In Midnight's Children (by Salman Rushdie), why is the Brass Monkey so nicknamed?
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81 times (25.8%) |
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In Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, how many Midnight Children are there?
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88 times (29.7%) |
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Which of the following books did Kaavya Viswanathan NOT plagiarize from in writting her book How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got A Life?
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513 times |
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170 times (19.1%) |
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From which Salman Rushdie's book is the quote from: "He was handsome as sin but twice as virtuous." ?
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In Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh, to which navigator is the story of the protagonist's family linked at the beginning of the book?
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113 times |
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64 times (30.9%) |
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In Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, which character undergoes a metamorphosis from an ugly duckling childhood to nationwide celebrity status?
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174 times |
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90 times (33.2%) |
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Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh traces the history of a dynasty of ________ merchants.
(Hint: The merchandise in question is, to a certain extent, symbolic of the conflicts faced by the various members of the family.)
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117 times |
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A fatwa was issued against author Salman Rushdie for which novel?
   
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2955 times (88.1%) |
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132 times (3.9%) |
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Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children concerns the independence of which country?
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473 times (32.1%) |
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In Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, on what date is Saleem Sinai born?
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When Saleem Sinai's mother remarries in Midnight's Children, she changes her name to Amina. What was her original name?
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Who wrote the novel A Bend in the River which starts with this line: "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it"?
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Scenes from the life of what prophet were recreated in The Satanic Verses?
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231 times (72.9%) |
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In Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, what do the children all have in common?
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Shiva, who is the protagonist's rival-figure in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children eventualy becomes a war-hero. What is his military ranking?
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Who wrote The Siege of Krishnapur?
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Shahrazad famously spins her stories in A Thousand and One Nights in an interlinked manner, in such a way that each word and each story added serves to delay the ending and to extend time (and thus, to prolong her life); potentially, infinitely so. Often -- particularly when she tells stories within a story -- she actually even makes her listener/reader go all the way back to the point where (s)he started.
Which of the following modern books likewise contain examples of such circular or "life-extending" storytelling (or even a direct or indirect reference to "1001 Nights")?
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All but one of these writers published works of fiction with the phrase (NB: both words) "the sea" in the title. Who is the odd one out?
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In Midnight's Children bySalman Rushdie, which appendage(s) of the central character is/are significantly larger than average?
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