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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. Sancho states in the sixth chapter that the difference between himself and God is that "God has a" (71) what?
(a) Job.
(b) Mother.
(c) Plan.
(d) Dream.

2. 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.

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

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

5. Quichotte and Sancho find in the twelfth chapter that many citizens of Berenger, New Jersey have transformed into what types of creatures?
(a) Rhinoceroses.
(b) Mastadons.
(c) Centaurs.
(d) Hippopotamuses.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator define the nationality of Ex-Wife, Brother's former spouse?

2. Quichotte tells Sancho that "Human life is mostly" (150) what?

3. After how many hours does Brother respond to the email he receives from Sister in Chapter 15?

4. A clip from Miss Salma R.'s popular spy show went viral and forever after, she has been associated her with which sea creature?

5. What is Sancho's most distinctive feature?

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