Selection Quick Checks (English)



1.	How does Rushdie find his family's old home?
	A.	He looks in the telephone directory.
	B.	He has a photograph that shows the address.
	C.	A relative told him the whereabouts of the home.
	D.	He remembers the address in the recesses of his memory.

2.	Indian writers who have left their homeland and try to recapture it create what according to Rushdie?
	A.	"uncertain knowledge"
	B.	"illusions"
	C.	"Indias of the mind"
	D.	"exact replicas of childhood dreams"

3.	Every day, Rushdie states, British Indian writers must face what?
	A.	the nightmares of the homeland
	B.	voices of their ancestors
	C.	difficulties in translations
	D.	problems of definition

4.	What, according to Rushdie, is the key existential question that British Indian writers must ask themselves?
	A.	Can we make this society better?
	B.	What are our roles in society?
	C.	How are we to live in the world?
	D.	Should we move back to India?

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