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

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

3. 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) Zoraida's father learns of her desire to go to a Christian country and helps them.
(c) They are freed in a raid by spanish troops.
(d) They manage to rob the cruel Moor who is their master.

4. These early adventures of Don Quixote establish what theme that runs throughout the novel?
(a) That he is invincible when he wears his armor.
(b) That the age of chivalry is not dead.
(c) That his meddling seldom has the resultsfor which he plans.
(d) That he wins people over by his great imagination.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What characteristic do Quixote and the innkeeper share as observed by Dorothea and Cardenio?

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

4. When Don Quixote and Sancho go into the village the next morning, what is their problem?

5. What does Don Quixote imagine to be the legendary helmet of Mambrino?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Don Quixote's choice of penance after the release of the prisoners.

2. Describe Dorothea's relationship with Don Fernando.

3. Describe how Cervantes presents Sancho as one motivated by money.

4. Outline the story of what Anselmo wants Lothario to do.

5. Discuss how Don Quixote always explains away any adverse events or circumstances.

6. Give evidence that the farmer's daughter is a popular theme in Cervantes' writing.

7. How is the character of Don Quixote enlarged and filled out by Cervantes?

8. Describe how Cervantes suggests that Don Quixote descends into madness.

9. What is Sancho's comic rationale for believing Don Quixote is not in an enchanted cage at all?

10. Describe the story of the Captive Captain.

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