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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. How many security guards show up when "the white lady" (126) launches a racist verbal attack against Quichotte and Sancho at Lake Capote?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

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) Promise.
(d) Opportunity.

3. When Brother and Ex-Wife speak with the police, they find that has Son chosen to take which action in relation to his family?
(a) To move out on his own.
(b) To resign.
(c) To wage war.
(d) To get therapy.

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

5. Over what type of game do Brother and Sister reconnect and begin to renew their bond in Chapter 15?
(a) Chess.
(b) Scrabble.
(c) Stratego.
(d) Checkers.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Quichotte takes a wrong turn somewhere between Toledo and which other city?

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

5. Which meteorological element is NOT part of the weather that greets Quichotte and Sancho in New York City?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the symbolism of Babajan's laugh, as revealed in the novel's eleventh chapter?

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

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

4. Which character wants to facilitate a reconciliation between Brother and Sister and why?

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

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

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

8. Under what circumstances does Son disappear for several weeks?

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

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

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