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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. Which country is NOT one of the three settings featured within the novel, according to the narrator in the fourth chapter?
2. In what way are Sancho and Quichotte related?
3. How many spy novels has Sam DuChamp written by the time he embarks on a work of experimental fiction?
4. What is the title of Dr. Smile and his wife's special song?
5. Quichotte decides in the novel's first chapter that Sancho is "approximately the same hue as" (19) which character?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss the malady that Miss Salma R's inherited from her mother and grandmother.
2. Who is Sam DuChamp?
3. 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.
4. What eventuality concerning Dr. R. K. Smile's career is revealed in the novel's fifth chapter?
5. What is the nature of the quest to which the title of Chapter 1 of Quichotte refers?
6. Describe Sancho's overall impressions of his father Quichotte.
7. For what purpose does Quichotte use an allusion to The Dating Game to teach Sancho about love?
8. Describe the circumstances that lead to Quichotte becoming a father in Chapter 1 of the novel.
9. What major transition in Miss Salma R's life came shortly before the onset of her problems with addictive behaviors?
10. In what setting does the novel's fourth chapter take place?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the topic of hope treated within Quichotte and how does its treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Rushdie's choice to tell the story of Quichotte using a third person omniscient narrator. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Rushdie’s intended effects on the reader?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze Rushdie from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?
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