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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Chapter 5: Quichotte’s Cousin, the “Good” Dr. Smile, is a Man of Many Secrets - Chapter 8: Wherein, Turning Away the Brightness of the Beloved, We Examine Her Darkness.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the novel's third chapter, the mother of Miss Salma R. is likened to whom?
(a) Rita Hayworth.
(b) Athena.
(c) Marilyn Monroe.
(d) Glinda the Good Witch.

3. What is the nature of the quarrel that developed between Sister and DuChamp?
(a) Financial.
(b) Logistical.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Territorial.

4. In the seventh chapter of the novel, Quichotte and Sancho encounter what type of talking insect?
(a) An aphed.
(b) A cricket.
(c) A praying mantis.
(d) A ladybug.

5. Three generations of whose family are said to suffer from struggles with mental health?
(a) Sancho.
(b) Quichotte.
(c) Miss Salma R.
(d) DuChamp.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miss Salma R is a third-generation sufferer of which malady?

2. To which celebrity does the narrator liken Miss Salma R. while calling her "America's 2.0" (85)?

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

4. In which direction do Sancho and Quichotte head on Highway 160 in the seventh chapter?

5. The narrator opens the fourth chapter of the novel by stating, "They do things differently" (53) in which country?

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