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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What constantly overcomes Sancho Panza's skepticism about Don Quixote?
(a) Quixote's balm which can cure anything
(b) The real things Don Quixote does.
(c) Sancho begins to see castles too.
(d) The promise of an island to rule
2. What argument does the niece use to try and get her uncle to stay home?
(a) She suggests that his health will not hold out.
(b) She argues that poor men cannot become knights.
(c) She says that he can go only if he takes her with him.
(d) She suggests that he needs to wait for new armor.
3. Why does Zoraida attempt to correspond with the Captive Captain?
(a) Her father wants to marry her off to an old Moor gentleman.
(b) She fears being sold into slavery.
(c) She wants to leave and go to a Christian nation.
(d) She thinks he is the most handsome man she ever saw.
4. What is the story of the mule driver with the beautiful voice?
(a) He is a prince who has fallen in love with a commoner.
(b) He is a poor poy who is pining away for love of clara.
(c) He is the son of a wealthy man who is in love with the judge's daughter.
(d) He is one of the escaped criminals the king is looking for.
5. Don Quixote tells Sancho that there is no such thing as a knight errant who is not what?
(a) In love
(b) Very old
(c) In poverty
(d) Without armor
6. How does Don Quixote believe he has been enchanted in the night as he guards the inn?
(a) He is tricked into being tied by one hand in the barn loft as he stands on the back of Rozinante.
(b) He thinks he sees Dulcinea walking in the moonlight around the inn.
(c) He sees giants walking everywhere in the courtyard of the inn.
(d) He uses a pitchfork in place of his lance which has been broken to pieces.
7. In the goatherd's tale, who is Marcella?
(a) The milkmaid who marries a king.
(b) The daughter of a wealthy man who begins acting as a shepherdess.
(c) The princess of El Toboso.
(d) A cruel murderess.
8. What is the surprise after Don Quixote defeats the Knight of the Wood?
(a) He is another unreal enchantment.
(b) He is actually a woman.
(c) He is actually Sampson.
(d) He has not actually been knighted.
9. What common object becomes the means of correspondence with the Captive Captain?
(a) A teapot
(b) A pillowcase
(c) A cane
(d) A bottle
10. What is the challenge to knight errantry presented to Don Quixote by Vivaldo?
(a) Instead of making their last moments in honor of their ladies, knights should instead submit themselves to God.
(b) Vivaldo challenges Don Quixote to find and slay a dragon.
(c) Vivaldo suggests that the day of knights errant are long past and Don Quizxote should go home.
(d) Vivaldo says that the rules of knight errantry need to be rewritten.
11. What stops the melee at the inn in the middle of the night?
(a) Don Quixote's bed falls through the floor into the room below.
(b) An officer of the Holy Brotherhood believes that Don Quixote is dead.
(c) The inn catches on fire.
(d) The police arrive and break up the fighting.
12. How do the curate and the barber plan to get Quixote to return with them to La Mancha?
(a) They change all the road signs along the way.
(b) They send a false message saying Dulcinea bids Quixote to come to her immediately.
(c) They plan to tie him up in his sleep.
(d) They make him believe that the giants have invaded La Mancha.
13. What makes Sancho Panza drop his demand for a salary?
(a) The curate promises to pay Sancho to go with him as a protection.
(b) He thinks about the isle he will one day reign over.
(c) He realizes that Don Quixote is penniless and cannot pay.
(d) Don Quixote seems ready to accept Sampson as his squire.
14. Why do Sancho and the squire of the Knight of the Wood go off by themselves?
(a) They want to talk about their crazy masters.
(b) The knight's squire is Sancho's cousin.
(c) Don Quixote orders them to go away.
(d) The Knight of the Wood is shocked that Sancho speaks up so freely.
15. How does Cervantes poke fun at his own mistakes in writing the first part of The Adventures of Don Quixote?
(a) He talks about how the characters in his book are unbelievable.
(b) He raises the question of the disappearing ass, Dapple, and its unexplained reappearance.
(c) He discusses the absurdity of a man like Don Quixote.
(d) He discusses putting in so many unrelated stories in the book.
Short Answer Questions
1. What secret does Don Fernando confide to Cardenio?
2. What is the giant that Don Quixote attacks in his sleep?
3. As Dorothea tells her story, what does Cardenio suddenly realize?
4. What happens to Camilla, Anselmo, and Lothario at the end of the tale within the tale?
5. What does the innkeeper use as a holy book of heraldry in the knighthood ceremony?
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