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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 level of school was Son attending at the time when he dropped out?
(a) Graduate school.
(b) Primary school.
(c) College.
(d) High school.

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

3. When Brother and Ex-Wife speak with the police, they find that has Son chosen to take which action in relation to his family?
(a) To get therapy.
(b) To resign.
(c) To move out on his own.
(d) To wage war.

4. While thinking about the subway posters in Chapter 14, Brother declares himself to be what kind of writer?
(a) Passable.
(b) Good.
(c) Great.
(d) Bad.

5. What object is Lance Makioka holding on his lap when he confronts Brother in Brother's own home?
(a) A photograph.
(b) An envelope.
(c) A knife.
(d) A gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sancho muses near the end of the novel's sixth chapter that for some people, what kind of narrative is always attractive?

2. When Rushdie uses a gambling metaphor in Chapter 13, he portrays Quichotte as "betting on" (192) what?

3. The narrator apologizes in the seventh chapter for forgetting to tell the reader about what item inside the trunk of Quichotte's car?

4. What is Sancho's main desire, as revealed in the novel's ninth chapter?

5. Long after it is over, Quichotte and Sancho both feel what way about the incident at Lake Capote with the white lady?

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