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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On their next adventure, where do Don Quixote and Sancho Panza head first?
(a) To the mountains for some training
(b) Back to the inn that Quixote thinks is a castle
(c) To Constantinople to start a crusade
(d) To El Toboso to get the blessing of the Lady Dulcinea

2. 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 says he never read anything like that in his books about knight errantry.
(d) He pays him with enchanted money that Sancho cannot see.

3. As Don Quixote and Sancho Panza look for water in the night, what spooks them?
(a) A metallic clanking and the sound of running water
(b) The sound of many horses
(c) A drum beating in the distance
(d) A ghostly moan over the sound of water

4. Which two of Quixote's chivalric heroes inspire him to do a penance in the mountain?
(a) Arthur and Lancelot
(b) Valiant and Gawain
(c) Peter and Paul
(d) Amadis and Orlando

5. 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.

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

7. Why does Lothario think Camilla is being unvirtuous?
(a) He hears that a number of men have been visiting her at home.
(b) He thinks she is beginning to respond to him and the poems he writes for her.
(c) He notices that Camilla goes out every afternoon when Anselmo is away.
(d) He sees her maid's lover leaving the house early one morning.

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

9. What is the irony when Don Quixote speaks to a group of people?
(a) He can only speak things he has read in a book.
(b) His speech is eloquent even though he suffers from madness.
(c) His speech is halting and not at all like that of a noble knight.
(d) His speech sounds madder than his actions.

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

11. How does Dorothea get Don Quixote to leave the mountain and travel with her, the curate, the barber, Sancho and Cardenio?
(a) By pretending to be a Queen driven from her country by evil giants.
(b) By pretending to be the sister of the Lady Dulcinea.
(c) By promising to marry him if he gets her home safely.
(d) By reading aloud from a book of chivalry each night.

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sancho Panza continue to insist that Don Quixote is not enchanted?

2. What is Marcela's argument that she is not responsible for the death of Chrysostom?

3. In yet another tale within the tale, who does the captive captain contrive to rescue?

4. What device does Cervantes use to introduce the comedic nature of Don Quixote?

5. What unlikely group of men does Don Quixote set free and enjoin them to go tell Dulcinea of their release?

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