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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) Culinary Arts.
(b) Law.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Accounting.

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

3. Sancho states that Quichotte, whom he calls Dad, is how many years old?
(a) 70.
(b) 80.
(c) 60.
(d) 50.

4. In which city does Dr. Smile live, according to the narrator of the novel's fifth chapter?
(a) Juarez.
(b) New York City.
(c) El Paso.
(d) Atlanta.

5. What is the name of Miss Salma R.'s grandmother?
(a) Miss Racine R.
(b) Miss Layla R.
(c) Miss Dina R.
(d) Miss Michelle R.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which direction do Sancho and Quichotte head on Highway 160 in the seventh chapter?

2. How many unsuccessful marriages has Miss Salma R. had, according to the narrator in the eighth chapter?

3. Quichotte is described as often finding "himself incapable of distinguishing between" (2) which two elements?

4. In what city is Sam DuChamp said to be based?

5. To which celebrity does the narrator liken Miss Salma R. while calling her "America's 2.0" (85)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Brother's comment about the novel entitled Quichotte having a story that is "plural and sprawling"?

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the circumstances that lead to Quichotte becoming a father in Chapter 1 of the novel.

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

8. What is Miss Salma R's history in relation to marriage?

9. Describe Sancho's overall impressions of his father Quichotte.

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

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