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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 3 | Part 2, Chapter 4 | Part 2, Chapter 5 | Part 2, Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What secret does Don Fernando confide to Cardenio?
(a) An affair with a farmer's daughter he promised to marry
(b) An illegitimate child by a farmer's daughter
(c) Many sexual experiences with poor girls in his village
(d) That some girl's father is trying to kill him.

2. In the night, Don Quixote attacks what Sancho fears to be twenty or more ghosts. Why is he victorious?
(a) They think there are many men attacking them.
(b) They are mourners taking a body to Segovia and are unarmed.
(c) They cannot see well in the darkness.
(d) They think Don Quixote and Sancho are ghosts.

3. How does the protagonist slip into the fantasy world of Don Quixote de la Mancha?
(a) From reading books and poems involving knights, chivalry,and adventure
(b) From a blow to his head when he falls off his horse
(c) From the natural deteriorization of old age dementia
(d) From listening to children's fairy tales

4. What happens when Don Quixote, moved by Eugenio's tale, volunteers to rescue his love and restore her to him?
(a) Eugenio falls at his feet with tears in his eyes.
(b) Eugenio begs to go with Don Quixote to rescue Leandra.
(c) Eugenio says it is too late because Leandra is dead.
(d) They fight when Eugenio suggests that Don Quixote is out of his mind.

5. How does Sancho Panza regain Dapple?
(a) Don Quixote offers a large reward for the mule.
(b) Gines de Pasamonte rides up disguised as a gypsy but Sancho Panza recognizes him.
(c) Don Quixote finds the mule in the castle stables.
(d) The mule has bucked off its captor and headed back to La Mancha.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dorothea get Don Quixote to leave the mountain and travel with her, the curate, the barber, Sancho and Cardenio?

2. As Dorothea tells her story, what does Cardenio suddenly realize?

3. How do the curate and the barber plan to get Quixote to return with them to La Mancha?

4. What literary device is introduced in Chapter nine that helps move the story along and give it credence?

5. What happens to Sancho Panza when he drinks Don Quixote's balm of wine, oil, salt and rosemary?

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