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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Don Quixote interpret the penitents and their effigy of the Virgin?
(a) He thinks they are ghosts.
(b) He sees them as holy men on the way to Jerusalem.
(c) He thinks they have come to set him free of enchantment.
(d) He sees them as criminals who have kidnapped a Lady.
2. How does Don Quixote believe he has been enchanted in the night as he guards the inn?
(a) He thinks he sees Dulcinea walking in the moonlight around the inn.
(b) He sees giants walking everywhere in the courtyard of the inn.
(c) He is tricked into being tied by one hand in the barn loft as he stands on the back of Rozinante.
(d) He uses a pitchfork in place of his lance which has been broken to pieces.
3. How can the first of Don Quixote's adventures be described?
(a) They are completely imaginary in Don Quixote's head.
(b) They are histerically funny adventures that see him victorious.
(c) They are misadventures that end in disaster for Don Quixote and a boy he tries to save.
(d) They are his first encounters with giants he needs to slay.
4. When Don Quixote sets out again on adventures, who does he take with him?
(a) Dulcinea
(b) Sancho Panza
(c) The barber
(d) Lothario
5. What does the canon think about drama of his day?
(a) Plays are educational to those who cannot read books.
(b) The plays staged at his time are worthy of high praise.
(c) The plays that are staged nowadays are mirrors of absurdity, patterns of folly, and images of lewdness.
(d) Plays are a reflection of real life and teach valuable morals.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who are the surprise visitors to the group?
2. Where does Quixote send Sancho Panza on a mission?
3. What shows Sancho Panza's simple mind as he meets up with the barber and the curate at the inn?
4. In the night, Don Quixote attacks what Sancho fears to be twenty or more ghosts. Why is he victorious?
5. What secret does Sancho Panza overhear and tell to Don Quixote?
Short Essay Questions
1. Relate Don Quixote's battle with the giant of Micomicon.
2. How does Don Quixote agree to return to La Mancha?
3. How does the student Sampson enter into Don Quixote's life?
4. Before the start of the second part of their adventures, why do Sancho and Don Quixote have a disagreement?
5. Describe how Cervantes suggests that Don Quixote descends into madness.
6. What happens while Don Quixote is allowed out of the cage on the oxcart?
7. Describe the story of the Captive Captain.
8. Tell the story of how Don Quixote becomes entangled with the criminal, Gines de Pasamonte.
9. What is the significance of the Knight of the Wood?
10. Describe Rocinante.
This section contains 998 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |
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