MCQs - life and works of Salman Rashdie

 MCQs - life and works of Salman Rashdie

 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.       Which novel of Rushdie was banned in India for its controversial content?

a)      The Satanic Verses

b)      Shame

c)       Midnight's Children

d)      The Moor's Last Sigh

Answer: a) The Satanic Verses

 

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.       Which novel of Rushdie is a retelling of the story of the biblical prophet Job, set in modern-day New York City?

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 Indian girl who is born with magical powers?

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?

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, published in 2012?

a)      Imaginary Homelands

b)      The Jaguar Smile

c)       Joseph Anton

d)      Step Across This Line

Answer: c) Joseph Anton

 

12.   Which literary award did Salman Rushdie receive in 1993 for his contribution to literature?

a)      Nobel Prize in Literature

b)      Man Booker International Prize

c)       PEN/Nabokov Award

d)      Golden Man Booker Prize

Answer: b) Man Booker International Prize

 

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.   What is the name of the organization that issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie in 1989?

a)      Islamic State

b)      Al-Qaeda

c)       Muslim Brotherhood

d)      The Iranian Government

Answer: d) The Iranian Government

 

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 over 600 years of history and 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.   Which novel of Rushdie was adapted into a television miniseries by the BBC in 2018?

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 novel of Rushdie explores the theme of love and loss through the story of a man who is haunted by the memory of his ex-wife?

a)      The Satanic Verses

b)      The Moor's Last Sigh

c)       Fury

d)      The Golden House

Answer: d) The Golden House

 

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.   Which novel of Rushdie tells the story of a man who becomes a human bomb and his subsequent journey through the afterlife?

a)      Shame

b)      The Satanic Verses

c)       Fury

d)      Quichotte

Answer: b) The Satanic Verses

 

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.   In which novel of Rushdie do the characters experience a phenomenon called "time freeze" where they are suspended in time?

a)      Quichotte

b)      Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

c)       Haroun and the Sea of Stories

d)      The Enchantress of Florence

Answer: b) Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

 

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 is a satire on modern-day America and its political and cultural issues?

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.   The Booker of Bookers award was given to Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" to celebrate which occasion?

a)      The 10th anniversary of the Booker Prize

b)      The 20th anniversary of the Booker Prize

c)       The 25th anniversary of the Booker Prize

d)      The 30th anniversary of the Booker Prize

Answer: c) The 25th anniversary of the Booker Prize

 

32.   In which year was the Best of Booker award given to Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children"?

a)      1981

b)      1993

c)       2008

d)      2018

Answer: c) 2008

 

33.   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

 

34.   Which of the following is true about the Best of Booker award for "Midnight's Children"?

a)      It was the first time the award was given.

b)      It was given to the book that had won the most number of Booker Prizes.

c)       It was given to the best book to have won the Booker Prize in its first 40 years.

d)      It was given to the book that had sold the most number of copies.

Answer: c) It was given to the best book to have won the Booker Prize in its first 40 years.