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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Chapter 9: An Unpleasantness at Lake Capote, and Subsequent Disturbances in Reality - Chapter 11: Dr. Smile Meets Mr. Thayer; and a Grandfather Emerges From the Past to Haunt the Present.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Quichotte tells Sancho in the novel's tenth chapter, "Only knowledge of" what "can save us now" (145)?
(a) The divine.
(b) Mortality.
(c) The beloved.
(d) The past.

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

4. Which term does the narrator apply to Dr. Smile in the novel's fifth chapter?
(a) Octagenarian.
(b) Millionaire.
(c) Philanthropist.
(d) Billionaire.

5. Long after it is over, Quichotte and Sancho both feel what way about the incident at Lake Capote with the white lady?
(a) Appeased.
(b) Disturbed.
(c) Encouraged.
(d) Comforted.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many dialects of a particular language does Quichotte promise to teach Sancho on their way to New York City?

3. A certain novel's contents alerts Sancho to the lesson that which element is "the key to survival" (129)?

4. For what purpose do Quichotte and Sancho visit Lake Capote?

5. Thayer considers Dr. Smile to be particularly talented in which area?

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