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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which city did Miss Salma R once have a severe manic episode?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Portland.
(c) Seattle.
(d) San Francisco.

2. In what country was Quichotte born and raised?
(a) Pakistan.
(b) Canada.
(c) Sweden.
(d) India.

3. Sancho muses near the end of the novel's sixth chapter that for some people, what kind of narrative is always attractive?
(a) Quest.
(b) Carnivalesque.
(c) Flash fiction.
(d) Bildungsroman.

4. What kind of dance does Quichotte do in hopes of eliciting a sign about the journey's next move?
(a) Sun.
(b) Moon.
(c) Line.
(d) Square.

5. In what state is the Lake Capote Recreation Area?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Nevada.
(c) California.
(d) Utah.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the seventh chapter of the novel, Quichotte and Sancho encounter what type of talking insect?

2. About how old is Sancho?

3. In what way are Sancho and Quichotte related?

4. When Miss Salma R's doctors take her off lithium, they prescribe which treatments instead?

5. What is the relationship between the age of Quichotte and the age of DuChamp?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the circumstances that lead to Quichotte becoming a father in Chapter 1 of the novel.

2. What type of correspondence does Quichotte use to communicate with Miss Salma R for the first time?

3. At what important realization does Sancho arrive while standing in a Subway restaurant in the novel's sixth chapter?

4. What type of insect appears to Sancho and to what text is Rushdie alluding with this scene in the novel's seventh chapter?

5. What is the significance of Brother's use of the second person point of view in the novel's fourth chapter?

6. Who is Dr. R. K. Smile and in what way is he related to Quichotte?

7. Describe at least two different levels of reality introduced within the first two chapters of Quichotte.

8. In what setting does the novel's fourth chapter take place?

9. Describe Sancho's overall impressions of his father Quichotte.

10. What is the significance of Brother's comment about the novel entitled Quichotte having a story that is "plural and sprawling"?

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