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

2. Once Dr. Smile's "enterprises" mysteriously end "in ruins," (69) many people will attribute the downfall to which trait?
(a) Envy.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Greed.
(d) Foolishness.

3. About how old is Sancho?
(a) 20.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.

4. When Quichotte notes a wasted asset of Quichotte's, what item does he name?
(a) A large vocabulary.
(b) Creativity.
(c) Loyalty.
(d) Imagination.

5. In the third chapter, Quichotte sends Miss Salma R. a note containing how many words?
(a) 3.
(b) 12.
(c) 198.
(d) 73.

Short Answer Questions

1. Three generations of whose family are said to suffer from struggles with mental health?

2. In what way are Sancho and Quichotte related?

3. What is Sancho's most distinctive feature?

4. Quichotte tells Sancho in the seventh chapter, "No great quest, my boy, was ever achieved except by those with" (98) what?

5. When Miss Salma R's doctors take her off lithium, they prescribe which treatments instead?

Short Essay Questions

1. Provide three facts about Quichotte's life, as revealed in Chapter 1: Quichotte, an Old Man, Falls in Love, Embarks on a Quest, and Becomes a Father.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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