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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 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 manage to rob the cruel Moor who is their master.
(d) They are freed in a raid by spanish troops.

2. What does Don Quixote imagine to be the legendary helmet of Mambrino?
(a) A tea kettle
(b) A brass barber's bowl
(c) A mop bucket
(d) A gravy boat

3. How does Don Quixote get around paying a monthly wage to Sancho Panza?
(a) He pays him with enchanted money that Sancho cannot see.
(b) He fires him and starts looking for a replacement.
(c) He says he never read anything like that in his books about knight errantry.
(d) He turns it around and gets Sancho to pay him a monthly wage.

4. What kind of reception does Don Quixote receive from the goatherds?
(a) The goarherds laugh at him and send him away.
(b) The goatherds fear him because he is mad.
(c) He is welcomed, fed, entertained and medicated.
(d) He is set upon to see if he has money.

5. When Don Quixote sets out again on adventures, who does he take with him?
(a) Dulcinea
(b) Sancho Panza
(c) The barber
(d) Lothario

Short Answer Questions

1. What coincidence does Cervantes use to untangle some of the plot in Chapter 36?

2. How does Don Quixote interpret the penitents and their effigy of the Virgin?

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

4. Sancho thinks Quixote's captors are not demons at all. What is Quixote's response to that suggestion?

5. What secret does Don Fernando confide to Cardenio?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What happens while Don Quixote is allowed out of the cage on the oxcart?

6. When Don Quixote sees a girl Sancho says is Dulcinea, what are the circumstances?

7. Summarize Don Quixote's idea of the Golden Age.

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. How do many people abuse Don Quixote's madness?

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