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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 kind of a name is Sam DuChamp, according to the narrator of the novel's second chapter?
(a) A palindrome.
(b) An alias.
(c) An Anglicized name.
(d) A pen name.

2. In what country was Quichotte born and raised?
(a) India.
(b) Pakistan.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Canada.

3. Discussing New York City in Chapter 13, the narrator states that the city glistens "in the morning like a new" (193) what?
(a) Opportunity.
(b) Promise.
(c) Life.
(d) Start.

4. In the novel's second chapter, what new information is revealed about Quichotte?
(a) He is a young man.
(b) He is a fictional character.
(c) He is immortal.
(d) He has forgotten how to love.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which country is NOT one of the three settings featured within the novel, according to the narrator in the fourth chapter?

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

4. Thayer possesses a counterfeit press pass stating affiliation with which periodical?

5. Who bestowed the name of the Human Trampoline in Quichotte's sister, according to him?

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