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

2. Who comes to inform Don Quixote of the book that has been written about him?
(a) The canon
(b) The mayor of La Mancha
(c) Juana Panza
(d) The mischevious student Sampson

3. Who judges the basin to be a helmet, though incomplete?
(a) The barber from La Mancha
(b) The curate
(c) Dorothea
(d) The innkeeper

4. How does Cervantes plan to see that no further writing is done regarding Don Quixote de La Mancha?
(a) By getting a legal restraining order.
(b) By seeing him dead and buried at the end of Part Two.
(c) By allowing only a select few people to see his work.
(d) By writing the rest of the books in code.

5. Where does Quixote send Sancho Panza on a mission?
(a) To buy provisions for a long camp out in the mountains
(b) To return to the inn he believes is an enchanted castle
(c) To see the lady Dulcinea
(d) To find the half naked man

Short Answer Questions

1. In reality, what are the thirty or forty hulking giants Don Quixote attacks only to get seriously injured again?

2. What stops the melee at the inn in the middle of the night?

3. The niece, the housekeeper, the curate and the barber all agree on what as the cause of Don Quixote's madness?

4. What is Don Quixote's explanation for the way the people at the inn toss Sancho into the air from a blanket?

5. What kind of reception does Don Quixote receive from the goatherds?

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