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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) A cruel murderess.
(d) The princess of El Toboso.

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

3. 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?
(a) Back in La Mancha
(b) The fulling mills
(c) The Sierra Morena mountains
(d) The inn where they stayed before

4. What is Cervantes' complaint in the prologue to the second part of The Adventures of Don Quixote?
(a) That he has made no money off of the first part already in circulation.
(b) That the first part is really enough except for the public demand for more.
(c) That some writer had written a second part plagirizing the character of Don Quixote.
(d) That he is being forced to write a second part to satisfy royalty.

5. What do the curate and the barber try to avoid when they go to visit Quixote at home?
(a) Talking about Sancho Panza
(b) Reminding Quixote about his knightly obligations
(c) Asking about Dulcinea
(d) Talking about knight errantry

6. What happens when the barber shows up and recognizes the packsaddle and the basin he lost to Don Quixote?
(a) Don Quixote is convinced the basin is a basin.
(b) Don Quixote challenges the porr barber to a duel.
(c) Don Quixote insists that the basin is the helmet of Mambrino.
(d) Don Quixote pays the man for the helmet and the packsaddle.

7. What is Marcela's argument that she is not responsible for the death of Chrysostom?
(a) She does not know how a nobleman can waste away for a shepherdess.
(b) Her beauty does not obligate her to love those who love her for it.
(c) She has warned Chrysostom to leave her alone and find another girl.
(d) She knows nothing of Chrysostom's fixation on her.

8. What kind of reception does Don Quixote receive from the goatherds?
(a) He is welcomed, fed, entertained and medicated.
(b) The goatherds fear him because he is mad.
(c) He is set upon to see if he has money.
(d) The goarherds laugh at him and send him away.

9. What does the imagery of the Golden Age represent to Don Quixote?
(a) A time when there was money for everyone.
(b) The days when literature was at its peak.
(c) A simpler, more peaceful time in the age of chivalry.
(d) The times when uses of metal were discovered.

10. What is Sancho's plan to deceive Don Quixote about the Lady Dulcinea?
(a) He says that the Lady Dulcinea is currently in a convent preparing for her marriage to Quixote.
(b) He tells Quixote that Dulcinea has been enchanted and will only be seen as a peasant girl.
(c) He says that the Lady Dulcinea's father has locked her away in a tower somewhere in the north.
(d) He tells Quixote that the Lady Dulcinea has left the village and gone to the inn to look for him.

11. How do they manage to escape the Moorish land and take Zoraida with them?
(a) She gives them enough money to ransom themselves and buy a boat.
(b) They manage to rob the cruel Moor who is their master.
(c) Zoraida's father learns of her desire to go to a Christian country and helps them.
(d) They are freed in a raid by spanish troops.

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

13. How does Don Quixote get around paying a monthly wage to Sancho Panza?
(a) He pays him with enchanted money that Sancho cannot see.
(b) He says he never read anything like that in his books about knight errantry.
(c) He fires him and starts looking for a replacement.
(d) He turns it around and gets Sancho to pay him a monthly wage.

14. When Don Quixote sets out again on adventures, who does he take with him?
(a) Sancho Panza
(b) Lothario
(c) Dulcinea
(d) The barber

15. What is the plan to transport Don Quixote back to La Mancha?
(a) He is held in a makeshift cage on back of an oxcart.
(b) He is taken prisoner by the king's horsemen.
(c) He is tricked into leading them to La Mancha because Dulcinea has come there.
(d) He is ited to the back of his horse and led to La Mancha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What constantly overcomes Sancho Panza's skepticism about Don Quixote?

2. In the night, Don Quixote attacks what Sancho fears to be twenty or more ghosts. Why is he victorious?

3. Why does Teresa fear for Sancho suddenly becoming rich?

4. Why does Sancho Panza doubt that the enchanted demons are real?

5. What happens when Dapple is taken by the actors?

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