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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When everyone else leaves the table, where does Sancho go?
(a) To the moat to take a swim
(b) To the stable to check on Dapple
(c) With the servants to play games
(d) To hold a conversation with the Duchess

2. Why does Don Quixote go to Barcelona instead of Saragossa?
(a) Barcelona is closer.
(b) He resolves to go to Barcelona just to discredit the Benengeli history.
(c) The Saragossa tournament has been canceled.
(d) Don Jeronimo and Don Juan are going to Barcelona.

3. Who challenges Don Quixote and defeats him?
(a) The Knight of the Mirrors
(b) The giant of Algiers
(c) The captain of the guard
(d) The Knight of the White Moon

4. Who else does Quixote insist he sees inside the cave?
(a) The priest and the barbers looking for the way out.
(b) The Knight of the Wood looking for revenge.
(c) Teresa Panza looking for her husband.
(d) Dulcinea still enchanted as a peasant girl.

5. Why do Don Quixote and Sancho believe the outlandish tale?
(a) Because Malambruno is supposed to be a clever enchanter.
(b) Because they believe any tale that involves a damsel in distress.
(c) Because the Duke and duchess appear to believe it.
(d) Because they have been drugged during dinner.

6. How does Sancho show his lack of pretension?
(a) He talks only to the poor.
(b) He wears his everyday clothes.
(c) He rejects being called Don Sancho Panza.
(d) He refuses to sit on a throne.

7. How does the Countess of Trifaldi attempt to capture the interest of Don Quixote?
(a) With a tale of a giant
(b) With a tale of dragons
(c) With a tale of two lovers
(d) With a tale of an evil count

8. What ruse do Basilio and Quiteria play on the bridegroom, Camacho?
(a) Quiteria marrying Basilio when it appears he is about to die.
(b) Telling Camacho that Quiteria is pregnant with Basilio's child.
(c) Pretending that Basilio has kidnapped Quiteria.
(d) Sending another heavily veiled girl in to wed Camacho.

9. Why is Don Antonio not pleased with the arrangement of Don Quixote going home?
(a) He wants to get money out of Don Quixote.
(b) He knows Don Quixote is not happy.
(c) He thinks Sampson won by trickery.
(d) He can have no more fun with the Don.

10. What does Sancho finally have the courage to tell Don Quixote?
(a) That he will not suffer any more abuse.
(b) That he is a fool who believes he is a knight.
(c) That he is leaving him and returning to his isle.
(d) That he lied about seeing Dulcinea.

11. Who is the unexpected pleasure for Don Quixote in Don Diego's house?
(a) Don Diego's beautiful daughter
(b) Don Lorenzo, Don Diego's poet son
(c) Don Diego's young wife
(d) Don Diego's personal chef

12. After the feast at Camacho's house, where does Don Quixote want to go?
(a) The enchanted castle
(b) The cave of Montesinos
(c) Back to La Mancha
(d) The cathedral at Madrid

13. What is the surprise plot twist as Don Quixote lays on his deathbed?
(a) He receives a visit from an angel.
(b) It is revealed that Don Quixote is dying from a broken heart.
(c) He renounces his knight errantry as madness.
(d) He writes a will that leaves Sancho Panza out.

14. What is the irony of Sancho's coming into political power?
(a) Sancho id becoming the kind of man he has always resented.
(b) Suddenly he has no friends which is unusual for a man like Sancho.
(c) Before he could not have rich food because he was poor; now it is because the doctor thinks it is not good for him.
(d) Sancho is so accustomed to having Don Quixote tell him what to do, he is unhappy.

15. Who does Sancho get into an argument with about waiting women?
(a) The stable boy dressed as a woman
(b) A scullery maid from the Duke's kitchen
(c) Dona Rodrigquez de Grijalba
(d) One of the traveling actors they had met earlier

Short Answer Questions

1. On their trip away from the castle, what misfortune happens to Quixote and Sancho?

2. How does Sancho's common sense come though during the telling of the Countess' story?

3. What happens as they ride up to meet a Duchess and a Duke?

4. What is a result of Sancho Panza's replying to the ecclesiastic in proverbs?

5. On the galley, Don Quixote gets a royal greeting but what happens to Sancho Panza?

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