MCQs - Life and works of Salman
Rushdie
1. In which year was Salman Rushdie born?
A. 1947
B. 1950
C. 1955
D. 1960
Answer: A. 1947
2. What is the title of Salman Rushdie's debut novel?
A. The Satanic Verses
B. Midnight's Children
C. Shame
D. Grimus
Answer: D. Grimus
3. Which novel of Rushdie won the Booker Prize in 1981?
A. The Satanic Verses
B. Shame
C. Midnight's
Children
D. Fury
Answer: C. Midnight's Children
4. Salman Rushdie was born in?
A. Delhi
B. Lahore
C. Mumbai
D. Kolkata
Answer: C. Mumbai
5. Which novel of
Rushdie explores the history of India from the partition of the subcontinent to
the assassination of Indira Gandhi?
A. The Satanic Verses
B. Shame
C. Midnight's
Children
D. The Moor's Last Sigh
Answer: C. Midnight's Children
6.Rushdie’ novel retelling of the story of the biblical
prophet Mohammed, became controversial, and a fatwa was issued by Iran’s Ayatollah
Khomeini in 1989?
A. The Satanic Verses
B. Shame
C. The Ground Beneath
Her Feet
D. The Moor's Last Sigh
Answer: A. The Satanic Verses
7. Which novel of Rushdie is a love story set against the backdrop
of the Indian film industry?
A. Fury
B. Shalimar the Clown
C. The Enchantress of
Florence
D. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Answer: D. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
8. “Which novel of Rushdie tells the story of a young boy on
a magical journey to restore his father's storytelling gift?”
A. Luka and the Fire of Life
B. Haroun and the Sea of Stories
C. The Enchantress of
Florence
D. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Answer: B. Haroun and the Sea of Stories
9. Which novel of Rushdie is a historical novel set in
Renaissance Florence?
A. The Satanic Verses
B. Shame
C. The Ground Beneath
Her Feet
D. The Enchantress of Florence
Answer: D. The Enchantress of Florence
10. Which novel of Rushdie tells the story of a young man
who is forced to confront his family's past in Kashmir and has theme of
terrorism?
A. Fury
B. Shalimar the Clown
C. The Enchantress of
Florence
D. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Answer: B. Shalimar the Clown
11. What is the name of Salman Rushdie's memoir, which recounts
his life under the fatwa, published in 2012?
A. Imaginary Homelands
B. The Jaguar Smile
C. Joseph Anton
D. Step Across This Line
Answer: C. Joseph Anton
12.
A. Nicaragua
B. Honduras
C. Soviet Union
D. America
Answer: A
13.Which novel of Rushdie is a satirical take on American
politics and culture?
A. Fury
B. The Moor's Last Sigh
C. The Ground Beneath
Her Feet
D. The Golden House
Answer: A. Fury
14. Which novel of Rushdie is a retelling of the myth of
Orpheus and Eurydice, set against the backdrop of the music industry?
A. Fury
B. The Moor's Last Sigh
C. The Ground Beneath
Her Feet
D. The Golden House
Answer: C. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
15. In which country was Salman Rushdie born?
A. Pakistan
B. India
C. Bangladesh
D. Sri Lanka
Answer: B. India
16. What is the name of the character who is a writer and a
protagonist in Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses"?
A. Gibreel Farishta
B. Saladin Chamcha
C. Mirza Saeed Akhtar
D. Omar Khayyam Shakil
Answer: A. Gibreel Farishta
17. Shame is a fictionalized critique of political life in
which country?
A. Iran
B. Pakistan
C. India
D. Bangladesh
Answer: B. Pakistan
18. Which novel of Rushdie is set in the city of Bombay
during the period of Emergency in India?
A. Shame
B. Midnight's Children
C. The Satanic Verses
D. Fury
Answer: B. Midnight's Children
19. Which novel of Rushdie explores a sprawling epic that
covers four generations in the life of a Bombay family.?
A. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
B. Shalimar the Clown
C. The Satanic Verses
D. The Moor's Last Sigh
Answer: D. The Moor's Last Sigh
20. Which novel of
Rushdie was inspired by the life of the Mughal emperor Akbar and the story of a
mysterious woman who arrives in his court?
A. The Enchantress of Florence
B. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
C. Haroun and the Sea
of Stories
D. Grimus
Answer: A. The Enchantress of Florence
21. BBC Radio broadcast a dramatic adaptation of Rushdie’s
………………. In 2017?
A. Midnight's Children
B. The Satanic Verses
C. Quichotte
D. The Golden House
Answer: A. Midnight's Children
22. Which novel of Rushdie is a modern retelling of Miguel
de Cervantes' Don Quixote?
A. Quichotte
B. The Satanic Verses
C. Fury
D. Shame
Answer: A. Quichotte
23. Which of the following is true about Midnight's
Children?
A. It won the ‘Booker prize for fiction’ in 1981.
B. It won the ‘Booker of Bookers’ in 1993 for the 25th anniversary
of the Booker Prize.
C. It won the ‘The Best of Booker’ in 2008 for 40th
anniversary after a public vote.
D. all the above
Answer: D
24. Which novel of Rushdie tells the story of a jinn who
falls in love with a human woman and their descendants who must save the world
from destruction?
A. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
B. Quichotte
C. The Enchantress of
Florence
D. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Answer: A. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
25. Rushdie was knighted by the British government in which
year?
A. 2005
B. 2007
C. 2010
D. 2012
Answer: B. 2007
26. Which novel of
Rushdie features a protagonist who is born at the exact moment when India gains
independence from British colonial rule?
A. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
B. Midnight's Children
C. Haroun and the Sea
of Stories
D. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Answer: B. Midnight's Children
27. The Best of Booker award was given to Salman Rushdie's
"Midnight's Children" to celebrate which occasion?
A. The 25th anniversary of the Booker Prize
B. The 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize
C. The 50th
anniversary of the Booker Prize
D. The 60th anniversary of the Booker Prize
Answer: B. The 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize
28. Which novel of
Rushdie is a fictionalized biography of Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great?
A. The Satanic Verses
B. The Enchantress of Florence
C. Shame
D. Fury
Answer: B. The Enchantress of Florence
29. Which novel of Rushdie follows the story of Nero
"Golden" and his three adult sons?
A. Fury
B. Shalimar the Clown
C. The Golden House
D. Quichotte
Answer: C. The Golden House
30. In which year
was the Booker of Bookers award given to Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's
Children"?
A. 1981
B. 1993
C. 2008
D. 1998
Answer: B. 1993
31. What is the name of the
protagonist in Midnight’s Children?
A. Saladin Chamcha
B. Gibreel Farishta
C. Saleem Sinai
D. Shalimar
Answer: C. Saleem Sinai
32. What is the name of the
female character in The Enchantress of Florence who captivates Emperor Akbar?
A. Jodha
B. Qara Köz
C. Parvati
D. Zeenat
Answer: B. Qara Köz
33. Which novel begins with a
plane explosion?
A. Grimus
B. Fury
C. The Satanic Verses
D. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Answer: C. The Satanic Verses
34. Which of these books is a
collection of essays by Rushdie?
A. Shame
B. Joseph Anton
C. Step Across This Line
D. Luka and the Fire of Life
Answer: C. Step Across This Line
35. What is the central theme of
Fury?
A. Renaissance politics
B. Bollywood glamour
C. American cultural excess
D. Partition of India
Answer: C. American cultural
excess
36. Two Years Eight Months and
Twenty-Eight Nights references which storytelling tradition?
A. Epic of Gilgamesh
B. Arabian Nights
C. Ramayana
D. Shakespearean drama
Answer: B. Arabian Nights
37. Rushdie studied at which
prestigious British university?
A. Oxford
B. Cambridge
C. LSE
D. Edinburgh
Answer: B. Cambridge
38. Which Salman Rushdie novel
was adapted into a film in 2012?
A. The Satanic Verses
B. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
C. Shalimar the Clown
D. Midnight’s Children
Answer: D. Midnight’s Children
39. Rushdie served as president
of which organization from 2004 to 2006?
A. UNESCO
B. Amnesty International
C. PEN America
D. Human Rights Watch
Answer: C. PEN America
40. Which genre best describes
much of Rushdie's work?
A. Minimalist fiction
B. Magical realism
C. Gothic fiction
D. Cyberpunk
Answer: B. Magical realism
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