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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. Who sends an email message in Chapter 15 while pretending to be Sister?
(a) Daughter.
(b) Evel Cent.
(c) Sancho.
(d) Brother.

2. Quichotte promises to teach Sancho different dialects of which language?
(a) Hindi.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Latin.
(d) French.

3. Who bestowed the name of the Human Trampoline in Quichotte's sister, according to him?
(a) Quichotte.
(b) Ex-Wife.
(c) Brother.
(d) The Human Trampoline.

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

5. Quichotte tells Sancho in the novel's tenth chapter, "Only knowledge of" what "can save us now" (145)?
(a) The past.
(b) Mortality.
(c) The divine.
(d) The beloved.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character "sometimes" has the "strange thought" (152) that maybe someone had created Quichotte just like Quichotte had created him?

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

3. What element obscures Quichotte's view of the creatures chasing him and Sancho in Chapter 12?

4. Discussing New York City in Chapter 13, the narrator states that the city glistens "in the morning like a new" (193) what?

5. How long ago did Brother lose touch with Son, according to Brother?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the significance of Brother's encounter with the "mosaic portraits of authors and musicians" (213) in the subway station?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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