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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long ago did Brother lose touch with Son, according to Brother?
(a) Several decades ago.
(b) Several weeks ago.
(c) Several years ago.
(d) Several months ago.

2. In which city does Thayer attend a conference in the eleventh chapter of the novel?
(a) Seattle.
(b) Phoenix.
(c) New York City.
(d) Atlanta.

3. Thayer possesses a counterfeit press pass stating affiliation with which periodical?
(a) New York Post.
(b) San Francisco Chronicle.
(c) Washington Post.
(d) Miami Herald.

4. In what position does Sancho sit while riding in the Chevy Cruze with Quichotte?
(a) The back seat.
(b) The passenger seat.
(c) The way-back.
(d) The roof.

5. Who bestowed the name of the Human Trampoline in Quichotte's sister, according to him?
(a) The Human Trampoline.
(b) Ex-Wife.
(c) Quichotte.
(d) Brother.

6. Quichotte tells Sancho that "Human life is mostly" (150) what?
(a) Bliss.
(b) Unhappiness.
(c) Waiting.
(d) Drudgery.

7. Which quality of Sister's is well-known within her social circle?
(a) Political power.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Intellectual capacity.
(d) Stoicism.

8. Against whose advice did Miss Salma R trust and love her maternal grandfather, Babajan?
(a) Her mother's and her grandmother's.
(b) Her grandmother's.
(c) Her sister's and her mother's.
(d) Her aunt's and her mother's.

9. Thayer listens to which character speak to an audience at a conference featured in the novel's eleventh chapter?
(a) Thayer.
(b) Quichotte.
(c) Dr. Smile.
(d) Miss Salma R.

10. How does Sancho react when the woman in the cream house tells him to go away?
(a) He cries.
(b) He screams.
(c) He breaks the window.
(d) He leaves a note.

11. What level of school was Son attending at the time when he dropped out?
(a) High school.
(b) Graduate school.
(c) College.
(d) Primary school.

12. What is NOT an action taken by the "giant mosaic portraits" (215) on the walls of the subway station in Chapter 14?
(a) They find him wanting.
(b) They judge him.
(c) They ignore him.
(d) They stare at him.

13. When Rushdie uses a gambling metaphor in Chapter 13, he portrays Quichotte as "betting on" (192) what?
(a) Success.
(b) Trust.
(c) Love.
(d) Compassion.

14. The night Quichotte and Sancho stay in a motel in Berenger, New Jersey, they plan to enter which city the following morning?
(a) Boston.
(b) New York City.
(c) Newark.
(d) Philadelphia.

15. How old was Miss Salma R when Babajan, her maternal grandfather, first kissed her on the mouth?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 14.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. Other than the knowledge inherited from Quichotte, what other source of knowledge does Sancho use to figure out "how the world works" (131)?

2. Sancho decides in the novel's tenth chapter that Quichotte is "truly" (145) what?

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

4. Once Jonesco has examined particular parts of Quichotte and Sancho's bodies, what term does he use in his diagnosis?

5. Jonesco mysteriously examines which parts of Quichotte and Sancho's bodies in the novel's twelfth chapter?

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