1. What are some ways that Mahatma Gandhi set about resisting colonial oppression in India?
2. Give an example of the innovation of Brechts epic theater style in Mother Courage and Her Children.
3. What are Bertolt Brechts principles of epic, or dialectical, theater?
4. Which character, in your opinion, suffers the most from oppressive circumstances in Mother Courage?
5. What does the character of Shiva represent in Midnights Children?
6. Indira Gandhi is called what in Midnights Children?
7. Explain the following quote from Midnights Children: I have been only the humblest of jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally ceases to exist, so that everything becomes possible except what we are told is the case. What is the author, Salman Rushdie, conveying here about government oppression?
8. In Midnights Children, how is Saleems personality and storytelling balanced by Padma?
9. How is the hour of Saleem Sinais birth significant in Midnights Children?