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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Chapter 1: Quichotte, an Old Man, Falls in Love, Embarks on a Quest, and Becomes a Father - Chapter 4: Brother’s Sister Recalls Their Quarrel, and Is Involved in a Different Altercation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Quichotte is described as often finding "himself incapable of distinguishing between" (2) which two elements?
(a) Illusion and reality.
(b) Surrealism and hyperrealism.
(c) Night and day.
(d) Good and evil.

2. Rushdie likens Quichotte to which character featured in The Wizard of Oz?
(a) The Tin Man.
(b) Glinda.
(c) The Scarecrow.
(d) Dorothy.

3. Which country is NOT one of the three settings featured within the novel, according to the narrator in the fourth chapter?
(a) Canada.
(b) India.
(c) The United States.
(d) Pakistan.

4. In what way are Sancho and Quichotte related?
(a) They are brothers.
(b) They are grandfather and grandson.
(c) They are father and son.
(d) They are cousins.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. DuChamp's sibling known as Sister lives in a neighborhood in what section of London?

2. With what name does Quichotte sign the first letter he sends to Miss Salma R.?

3. Quichotte lives "at a series of temporary addresses across" (1) which country?

4. Three generations of whose family are said to suffer from struggles with mental health?

5. In the third chapter, Quichotte sends Miss Salma R. a note containing how many words?

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