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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. When Miss Salma R's doctors take her off lithium, they prescribe which treatments instead?
(a) Electroconvulsive.
(b) Hydrotherapy.
(c) Massage.
(d) Acupuncture.

2. Sancho muses near the end of the novel's sixth chapter that for some people, what kind of narrative is always attractive?
(a) Flash fiction.
(b) Quest.
(c) Bildungsroman.
(d) Carnivalesque.

3. In what city is Sam DuChamp said to be based?
(a) New York City.
(b) Paris.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Mumbai.

4. What is the nature of the quarrel that developed between Sister and DuChamp?
(a) Financial.
(b) Logistical.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Territorial.

5. What emotion does Sancho experience when he gets too far away from Quichotte?
(a) Fear.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Relief.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country is NOT one of the three settings featured within the novel, according to the narrator in the fourth chapter?

2. What is the title of Dr. Smile and his wife's special song?

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

4. In what type of restaurant does Sancho realize that only Quichotte can see or hear him?

5. In what state is the Lake Capote Recreation Area?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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