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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has dinner with Don Quixote after Sancho Panza goes home?
(a) The mischevious student Sampson
(b) The barber and the priest
(c) The mayor of La Mancha
(d) His housekeeper and his niece

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

3. What is the challenge to knight errantry presented to Don Quixote by Vivaldo?
(a) Vivaldo challenges Don Quixote to find and slay a dragon.
(b) Vivaldo suggests that the day of knights errant are long past and Don Quizxote should go home.
(c) Instead of making their last moments in honor of their ladies, knights should instead submit themselves to God.
(d) Vivaldo says that the rules of knight errantry need to be rewritten.

4. In the goatherd's tale, who is Marcella?
(a) The princess of El Toboso.
(b) The daughter of a wealthy man who begins acting as a shepherdess.
(c) The milkmaid who marries a king.
(d) A cruel murderess.

5. The niece, the housekeeper, the curate and the barber all agree on what as the cause of Don Quixote's madness?
(a) The cheap wine he has been drinking
(b) His poor diet
(c) His vast collection of books
(d) His extreme old age

6. How can the first of Don Quixote's adventures be described?
(a) They are his first encounters with giants he needs to slay.
(b) They are misadventures that end in disaster for Don Quixote and a boy he tries to save.
(c) They are histerically funny adventures that see him victorious.
(d) They are completely imaginary in Don Quixote's head.

7. How does Cervantes poke fun at his own mistakes in writing the first part of The Adventures of Don Quixote?
(a) He discusses putting in so many unrelated stories in the book.
(b) He talks about how the characters in his book are unbelievable.
(c) He discusses the absurdity of a man like Don Quixote.
(d) He raises the question of the disappearing ass, Dapple, and its unexplained reappearance.

8. Found lying on the ground and severely wounded, where is Don Quixote taken by a neighbor?
(a) To the local magistrate who will examine Don Quixote's mental ability.
(b) To his door just as the curate and barber arrive with his niece and housekeeper.
(c) To an inn where he thinks he is in a castle.
(d) To the village where everyone can see him and make fun of him.

9. When Sancho tells his wife, Teresa, that he is going again with Don Quixote, what advice does Teresa give?
(a) That he must come home with another 100 crowns or not come home at all.
(b) To remain in his own station and not think of governorships.
(c) That this time he will surely die.
(d) That he should break his leg and get out of going with the madman.

10. What common object becomes the means of correspondence with the Captive Captain?
(a) A cane
(b) A teapot
(c) A bottle
(d) A pillowcase

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

12. Why does Teresa fear for Sancho suddenly becoming rich?
(a) She says that nobody looks at poor people but they stare at the rich.
(b) She says that he will have relatives coming to him that he never knew he had.
(c) She says that he will get high ideas and divorce her.
(d) She says that he knows nothing about handling money and will lose it all.

13. Why does Sancho Panza doubt that the enchanted demons are real?
(a) He sees that they leave footprints when they walk.
(b) He overhears them speaking in his native tongue.
(c) He does not believe in demons.
(d) He touches them and they feel like human bodies.

14. What shows Sancho Panza's simple mind as he meets up with the barber and the curate at the inn?
(a) He now believes the inn is an enchanted castle.
(b) He refuses to give them any information about Don Quixote.
(c) He forgets where he left Don Quixote.
(d) He has forgotten to bring the letter Quixote wrote to Dulcinea.

15. What is the canon's opinion of the chivalric tales?
(a) He says that he has never read one of them.
(b) He thinks they should be read by all educated people.
(c) He says that the so-called books of chivalry are most harmful to the commonwealth.
(d) He hopes they will restore chivalry to the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. Realizing their mistake, where do Don Quixote and Sancho Panza go to hide only to meet up again with Gines de Pasamonte who steals Sancho's ass?

2. When Don Quixote sets out again on adventures, who does he take with him?

3. What is the cause of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza getting a brutal beating from the Yanguesan carriers?

4. What do the curate and the barber try to avoid when they go to visit Quixote at home?

5. What is the giant that Don Quixote attacks in his sleep?

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