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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many spy novels has Sam DuChamp written by the time he embarks on a work of experimental fiction?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

2. What is Sancho's most distinctive feature?
(a) He has a bionic leg.
(b) He has red hair.
(c) He is mute.
(d) He exists in black-and-white.

3. What kind of dance does Quichotte do in hopes of eliciting a sign about the journey's next move?
(a) Line.
(b) Sun.
(c) Square.
(d) Moon.

4. Quichotte tells Sancho near the end of the first chapter that what event will occur if they fail on their quest?
(a) Miss Salma R. will cease to exist.
(b) Sancho will cease to exist.
(c) Quichotte will be fired.
(d) Quichotte will cease to exist.

5. In what way are Sancho and Quichotte related?
(a) They are grandfather and grandson.
(b) They are father and son.
(c) They are brothers.
(d) They are cousins.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what malady does DuChamp suffer, according to the narrator?

2. In the seventh chapter of the novel, Quichotte and Sancho encounter what type of talking insect?

3. Sancho considers himself to have been born in which location?

4. Quichotte instructs Sancho in the wisdom to be gleaned from which television show?

5. The character referred to as Sister is described as being from which part of the world?

Short Essay Questions

1. What eventuality concerning Dr. R. K. Smile's career is revealed in the novel's fifth chapter?

2. In what setting does the novel's fourth chapter take place?

3. Discuss the malady that Miss Salma R's inherited from her mother and grandmother.

4. Describe at least two different levels of reality introduced within the first two chapters of Quichotte.

5. Who is Sam DuChamp?

6. In what way does the theme of appearance versus reality surface in relation to the novel's protagonist, Quichotte?

7. In what way is irony used to portray the depths of Dr. Smile's deceitful ways?

8. What two elements does Quichotte name as the components that came together to create Sancho?

9. For what reason does Rushdie allude to the Hollywood stars Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo in the third chapter of Quichotte?

10. What is the nature of the quest to which the title of Chapter 1 of Quichotte refers?

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