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

2. When discussing Sam DuChamp in the second chapter, the narrator says, "We will call him" (21) by what name?
(a) Rival.
(b) Cousin.
(c) Father.
(d) Brother.

3. DuChamp's sibling known as Sister lives in a neighborhood in what section of London?
(a) West.
(b) South.
(c) East.
(d) North.

4. Quichotte decides in the novel's first chapter that Sancho is "approximately the same hue as" (19) which character?
(a) Miss Salma R.
(b) Ismail.
(c) DuChamp.
(d) The cricket.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What object in Sancho's possession does Quichotte recognize from an old photo of himself?

2. In the novel's third chapter, the mother of Miss Salma R. is likened to whom?

3. To what form of media is Quichotte addicted, as revealed in the first chapter of the novel?

4. How many spy novels has Sam DuChamp written by the time he embarks on a work of experimental fiction?

5. What adjective does the narrator apply to the reader while speaking directly to the reader in the novel's fourth chapter?

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