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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Chapter 9: An Unpleasantness at Lake Capote, and Subsequent Disturbances in Reality - Chapter 11: Dr. Smile Meets Mr. Thayer; and a Grandfather Emerges From the Past to Haunt the Present.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator describes the whole of Rushdie's novel by using which two adjectives?
(a) Plural and sprawling.
(b) Fragmented and hallucinatory.
(c) Quick and dirty.
(d) Lithe and supple.

2. How many dialects of a particular language does Quichotte promise to teach Sancho on their way to New York City?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

3. Quichotte is described as often finding "himself incapable of distinguishing between" (2) which two elements?
(a) Surrealism and hyperrealism.
(b) Night and day.
(c) Illusion and reality.
(d) Good and evil.

4. Miss Salma R. is said to have gone from which location to Hollywood?
(a) Miami.
(b) Dubai.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Bollywood.

5. In the novel's third chapter, the mother of Miss Salma R. is likened to whom?
(a) Rita Hayworth.
(b) Glinda the Good Witch.
(c) Marilyn Monroe.
(d) Athena.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of a name is Sam DuChamp, according to the narrator of the novel's second chapter?

2. Miss Salma R is a third-generation sufferer of which malady?

3. For what purpose do Quichotte and Sancho visit Lake Capote?

4. It is revealed in the eleventh chapter that Anderson Thayer considers himself to be the guardian of which character?

5. In which direction do Sancho and Quichotte head on Highway 160 in the seventh chapter?

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