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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country was Quichotte born and raised?

2. The narrator apologizes in the seventh chapter for forgetting to tell the reader about what item inside the trunk of Quichotte's car?

3. Quichotte instructs Sancho in the wisdom to be gleaned from which television show?

4. When Miss Salma R's doctors take her off lithium, they prescribe which treatments instead?

5. Quichotte tells Sancho at the start of the seventh chapter that "Love is" (94) what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. At what important realization does Sancho arrive while standing in a Subway restaurant in the novel's sixth chapter?

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

5. Who is Sam DuChamp?

6. What type of insect appears to Sancho and to what text is Rushdie alluding with this scene in the novel's seventh chapter?

7. Provide three facts about Quichotte's life, as revealed in Chapter 1: Quichotte, an Old Man, Falls in Love, Embarks on a Quest, and Becomes a Father.

8. For what reason does Rushdie allude to the Hollywood stars Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo in the third chapter of Quichotte?

9. What is the significance of Brother's use of the second person point of view in the novel's fourth chapter?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Perform a biographical criticism of Quichotte by researching Rushdie's life and work. Be sure to create a strong and specific claim focused on this particular book and then support that claim with quotes from the book and from your research of Rushdie.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the significance of the final passages included at the end of Quichotte.

Essay Topic 3

How are the topics of romantic relationships, love, and sex treated within the novel Quichotte and how does their treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?

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