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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. Against whose advice did Miss Salma R trust and love her maternal grandfather, Babajan?
(a) Her aunt's and her mother's.
(b) Her grandmother's.
(c) Her sister's and her mother's.
(d) Her mother's and her grandmother's.

2. On what holiday does the ninth chapter of Part Two begin?
(a) Christmas Day.
(b) The Fourth of July.
(c) Labor Day.
(d) Memorial Day.

3. Quichotte takes a wrong turn somewhere between Toledo and which other city?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Salt Lake City.
(c) Akron.
(d) Detroit.

4. Besides the one attempt to camp, where do Quichotte stay throughout their road trip?
(a) In movie theaters.
(b) In motels.
(c) In the car.
(d) In 24-hour gyms.

5. To whom does Quichotte place a phone call at the end of Chapter 13 after tending to Sancho's wounds?
(a) Miss Salma R.
(b) Sancho.
(c) His former boss.
(d) The Human Trampoline.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of accent does Jonesco have, according to the narrator?

2. On which other character is the fictional character of the Human Trampoline based?

3. Quichotte and Sancho arrive in New York City toward the end of which month?

4. Over what type of game do Brother and Sister reconnect and begin to renew their bond in Chapter 15?

5. Quichotte tells Sancho that "Human life is mostly" (150) what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What element is said to be desired by Sancho more than any other?

2. What is the setting of the novel's eleventh chapter?

3. What odd accessory does Sancho notice around the white lady's neck as he and Quichotte leave Lake Capote?

4. What element does Quichotte name as "the only antidote for human misery" (156) and with whom does he share this information?

5. For what reason do Quichotte and Sancho stop in Berenger, New Jersey before they make their way into New York City?

6. On whose behalf is Anderson Thayer meeting with Dr. R. K. Smile in the novel's eleventh chapter?

7. For what purpose does Rushdie use an allusion to Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick in Part Two, Chapter 9: An Unpleasantness at Lake Capote, and Subsequent Disturbances in Reality?

8. How do Son's parents discover what happened to Son after his sudden disappearance?

9. How do Quichotte and Sancho escape from the mastodons in Berenger, New Jersey?

10. What is the symbolism of Babajan's laugh, as revealed in the novel's eleventh chapter?

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