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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. From what malady does DuChamp suffer, according to the narrator?
(a) Depression.
(b) Gout.
(c) Tennis elbow.
(d) An aching back.

2. Miss Salma R. is said to have gone from which location to Hollywood?
(a) Bollywood.
(b) Miami.
(c) Dubai.
(d) Berlin.

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

4. What is the name of Miss Salma R.'s mother?
(a) Miss Kitty R.
(b) Miss Angie R.
(c) Miss Anisa R.
(d) Miss Lucille R.

5. In the third chapter of the novel, Miss Salma R.'s grandmother is likened to whom?
(a) Grace Kelly.
(b) Natalie Wood.
(c) Greta Garbo.
(d) Fay Wray.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how old is Sancho?

2. In what position does Hoke work for Miss Salma R.?

3. In what country was Quichotte born and raised?

4. Sancho reports that Quichotte lost which member of his family when he was only three years old?

5. The narrator describes the whole of Rushdie's novel by using which two adjectives?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the significance of Brother's use of the second person point of view in the novel's fourth chapter?

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

4. What type of insect appears to Sancho and to what text is Rushdie alluding with this scene in the novel's seventh chapter?

5. In what way does Rushdie use the subject of the quest narrative to illustrate qualities of Sancho's personality?

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

7. What major transition in Miss Salma R's life came shortly before the onset of her problems with addictive behaviors?

8. At what important realization does Sancho arrive while standing in a Subway restaurant in the novel's sixth chapter?

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

10. What was the catalyst for Miss Salma R's doctors' decision to prescribe electroconvulsive therapy treatments?

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