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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. Sancho decides in the novel's tenth chapter that Quichotte is "truly" (145) what?
(a) Cuckoo.
(b) Arrogant.
(c) Honorable.
(d) Rich.

2. Discussing New York City in Chapter 13, the narrator states that the city glistens "in the morning like a new" (193) what?
(a) Start.
(b) Life.
(c) Opportunity.
(d) Promise.

3. Quichotte tells Sancho that "the only antidote to human misery is" (150) what?
(a) Mystery.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Love.
(d) Community.

4. On which other character is the fictional character of the Human Trampoline based?
(a) Miss Salma R.
(b) Daughter.
(c) Jonesco.
(d) Sister.

5. What element obscures Quichotte's view of the creatures chasing him and Sancho in Chapter 12?
(a) A building.
(b) Fog.
(c) Driving rain.
(d) Sancho's hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of establishment is the Blue Yorker, where Quichotte and Sancho intend to stay while in New York City?

2. A certain novel's contents alerts Sancho to the lesson that which element is "the key to survival" (129)?

3. What is NOT an action taken by the "giant mosaic portraits" (215) on the walls of the subway station in Chapter 14?

4. In Chapter 15, the reader learns that Daughter uses what term to refer to her stepfather?

5. The woman in the cream house is described as a member of which people?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss an instance in the novel when humor is used to underscore the theme of absurdity.

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

3. 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?

4. To what creature does Rushdie compare Quichotte as he is "driving the Cruze out of the Lincoln Tunnel into Manhattan" (192) and why?

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

6. What positive traits does Miss Salma R come to believe Quichotte possesses, after reading two of his letters?

7. What traumatic childhood scenario within Miss Salma R's childhood is explained in the novel's eleventh chapter?

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

9. What element does Sancho decide is the "key to survival" (129) in life and what is the source of his conclusion?

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

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