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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Chapter 14 begins, it is revealed that Brother has how many children?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 0.
(d) 1.

2. In what manner did Miss Salma R's mother and grandmother both die?
(a) Drug overdose.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Homicide.

3. To whom does Quichotte place a phone call at the end of Chapter 13 after tending to Sancho's wounds?
(a) The Human Trampoline.
(b) Miss Salma R.
(c) Sancho.
(d) His former boss.

4. When Quichotte insists that he and Sancho must give up their desires and attachments, which element of life does he declare exempt?
(a) Television.
(b) The beloved.
(c) Gasoline.
(d) Food.

5. How many dialects of a particular language does Quichotte promise to teach Sancho on their way to New York City?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

6. What is NOT a reason Sancho provides when he names four reasons why people go to New York City?
(a) To be born again.
(b) To be broken.
(c) To be discovered.
(d) To be loved.

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

8. Who tells Brother and Ex-Wife that Son is alive and well, but he does not want to be contacted?
(a) A police officer.
(b) A receptionist.
(c) Daughter.
(d) Son's girlfriend.

9. Once Jonesco has examined particular parts of Quichotte and Sancho's bodies, what term does he use in his diagnosis?
(a) Rough.
(b) Smooth.
(c) Small.
(d) Human.

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

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

12. Jonesco, the motel clerk at the Jonesco Motor Inn, mutters under his breath about the need for what objects?
(a) Confessions.
(b) Barricades.
(c) Lies.
(d) Shadows.

13. Jonesco mysteriously examines which parts of Quichotte and Sancho's bodies in the novel's twelfth chapter?
(a) Ears.
(b) Knees.
(c) Eyes.
(d) Elbows.

14. Which fairy tale character is Thayer said to resemble?
(a) King Midas.
(b) Hansel.
(c) Goldilocks.
(d) Rumpelstiltskin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Brother, on whom is the character of Miss Salma R based?

2. Which meteorological element is NOT part of the weather that greets Quichotte and Sancho in New York City?

3. What type of accent does Jonesco have, according to the narrator?

4. Which quality of Sister's is well-known within her social circle?

5. It is revealed in the eleventh chapter that Anderson Thayer considers himself to be the guardian of which character?

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