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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Chapter 12: A Sequence of Absurd Events During a Brief Sojourn in New Jersey - Chapter 15: Regarding Sister, and the Unforgivable Thing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Miss Salma R.'s mother?
(a) Miss Lucille R.
(b) Miss Anisa R.
(c) Miss Angie R.
(d) Miss Kitty R.

2. Dr. Smile allows people to think that his ancestors had taken which action?
(a) Swum the English Channel.
(b) Created Mount Rushmore.
(c) Come over on the Mayflower.
(d) Burned as witches.

3. The narrator describes the whole of Rushdie's novel by using which two adjectives?
(a) Lithe and supple.
(b) Plural and sprawling.
(c) Quick and dirty.
(d) Fragmented and hallucinatory.

4. Miss Salma R. has an addiction to which substance, according to the narrator of the novel's third chapter?
(a) Adderall.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Heroin.
(d) Pain medication.

5. How many dialects of a particular language does Quichotte promise to teach Sancho on their way to New York City?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of accent does Jonesco have, according to the narrator?

2. Quichotte's second letter to Salma R begins when he declares himself to be a what?

3. Rushdie likens Quichotte to which character featured in The Wizard of Oz?

4. Quichotte takes a wrong turn somewhere between Toledo and which other city?

5. Which cartoon character is Thayer said to resemble?

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