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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. What type of education did Sister complete against her parents' wishes?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Accounting.
(c) Law.
(d) Culinary Arts.

2. Sancho considers himself to have been born in which location?
(a) Central Park.
(b) Michigan.
(c) Wyoming.
(d) DuChamp's mind.

3. In what state is the Lake Capote Recreation Area?
(a) California.
(b) Nevada.
(c) Utah.
(d) Colorado.

4. What city is named as "the capital of Indian America," (66) according to the narrator?
(a) Sacramento.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Philadelphia.

5. The product that made a fortune for Smile Pharmaceuticals Inc is fentanyl in what form?
(a) A lollipop.
(b) A popsicle.
(c) A spray.
(d) A drink.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sancho muses near the end of the novel's sixth chapter that for some people, what kind of narrative is always attractive?

2. Dr. Smile allows people to think that his ancestors had taken which action?

3. What is the relationship between the age of Quichotte and the age of DuChamp?

4. Miss Salma R is a third-generation sufferer of which malady?

5. Once Dr. Smile's "enterprises" mysteriously end "in ruins," (69) many people will attribute the downfall to which trait?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What type of correspondence does Quichotte use to communicate with Miss Salma R for the first time?

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

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

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

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

7. Who is Dr. R. K. Smile and in what way is he related to Quichotte?

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

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

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

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