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

2. Which character "sometimes" has the "strange thought" (152) that maybe someone had created Quichotte just like Quichotte had created him?
(a) Dr. R. K. Smile.
(b) Sancho.
(c) The Human Trampoline.
(d) Brother.

3. To whom does a particular character send an email message in Chapter 15 while pretending to be Sister?
(a) The Human Trampoline.
(b) Son.
(c) Miss Salma R.
(d) Brother.

4. Which quality of Sister's is well-known within her social circle?
(a) Stoicism.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Intellectual capacity.
(d) Political power.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What criticism does Sancho make about Quichotte's driving skills?

3. Against whose advice did Miss Salma R trust and love her maternal grandfather, Babajan?

4. How many dialects of a particular language does Quichotte promise to teach Sancho on their way to New York City?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. For what reason does Rushdie utilize a gambling metaphor within Chapter 13 of Part Two?

3. Discuss an instance of foreshadowing used within Part Two of Quichotte.

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

5. What action finally results in a reunion between Brother and Sister and who takes that action?

6. For what reason do Quichotte and Sancho visit Lake Capote in Colorado?

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

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

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

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

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