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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What constantly overcomes Sancho Panza's skepticism about Don Quixote?
(a) Sancho begins to see castles too.
(b) The real things Don Quixote does.
(c) Quixote's balm which can cure anything
(d) The promise of an island to rule

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 says that the rules of knight errantry need to be rewritten.
(c) Vivaldo suggests that the day of knights errant are long past and Don Quizxote should go home.
(d) Instead of making their last moments in honor of their ladies, knights should instead submit themselves to God.

4. What makes Sancho Panza drop his demand for a salary?
(a) Don Quixote seems ready to accept Sampson as his squire.
(b) He realizes that Don Quixote is penniless and cannot pay.
(c) The curate promises to pay Sancho to go with him as a protection.
(d) He thinks about the isle he will one day reign over.

5. How does Don Quixote get around paying a monthly wage to Sancho Panza?
(a) He fires him and starts looking for a replacement.
(b) He turns it around and gets Sancho to pay him a monthly wage.
(c) He pays him with enchanted money that Sancho cannot see.
(d) He says he never read anything like that in his books 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 pays the man for the helmet and the packsaddle.
(b) Don Quixote is convinced the basin is a basin.
(c) Don Quixote insists that the basin is the helmet of Mambrino.
(d) Don Quixote challenges the porr barber to a duel.

7. How do the curate and the barber plan to get Quixote to return with them to La Mancha?
(a) They send a false message saying Dulcinea bids Quixote to come to her immediately.
(b) They plan to tie him up in his sleep.
(c) They make him believe that the giants have invaded La Mancha.
(d) They change all the road signs along the way.

8. 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 begs to go with Don Quixote to rescue Leandra.
(c) Eugenio falls at his feet with tears in his eyes.
(d) They fight when Eugenio suggests that Don Quixote is out of his mind.

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

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

11. What stops the melee at the inn in the middle of the night?
(a) An officer of the Holy Brotherhood believes that Don Quixote is dead.
(b) Don Quixote's bed falls through the floor into the room below.
(c) The inn catches on fire.
(d) The police arrive and break up the fighting.

12. Why do Sancho and the squire of the Knight of the Wood go off by themselves?
(a) The knight's squire is Sancho's cousin.
(b) Don Quixote orders them to go away.
(c) They want to talk about their crazy masters.
(d) The Knight of the Wood is shocked that Sancho speaks up so freely.

13. What is the canon's opinion of the chivalric tales?
(a) He hopes they will restore chivalry to the world.
(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 says that he has never read one of them.

14. 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) She has warned Chrysostom to leave her alone and find another girl.
(c) Her beauty does not obligate her to love those who love her for it.
(d) She knows nothing of Chrysostom's fixation on her.

15. What device does Cervantes use to introduce the comedic nature of Don Quixote?
(a) A dream sequence
(b) A gypsy fortune teller
(c) Talking animals
(d) Silly advice from a friend

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the canon think about drama of his day?

2. Who judges the basin to be a helmet, though incomplete?

3. What is Sancho's plan to deceive Don Quixote about the Lady Dulcinea?

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

5. What happens to Camilla, Anselmo, and Lothario at the end of the tale within the tale?

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