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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. What invitation is given Don Quixote and Sancho when they meet two students and two peasants?
(a) A duel between Camacho and Basilio, a former lover of Quiteria
(b) The wedding of Quiteria the Fair to Camacho the Rich
(c) The sports games of the county
(d) The local fair and festival

2. While staying at the castle of the Duke and Duchess, what does Sancho do every time he gets frightened?
(a) He jumps behind Don Quixote.
(b) He crawls under a table.
(c) He pretends to be the Duke's valet.
(d) He hides in the Duchess' skirts.

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

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

5. What does Sancho do in response to Don Quixote's suggestion?
(a) He invites all knights errant to come to the island.
(b) He raises taxes and builds schools.
(c) He minds the poor and makes good and just laws, but not too many.
(d) He gives lots of banquets for the wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Don Quixote want Sancho to do before he leaves to become a governor?

2. What madness does the puppet show bring on in the mind of Don Quixote?

3. On their way back to La Mancha, who do Don Quixote and Sancho run across?

4. How does Sancho show his lack of pretension?

5. How does Cervantes work yet another side plot into his story at the point of boarding the ships?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Sancho shocked by the message of Death on the huge wagon of white-clad penitents?

2. What event causes Don Diego to invite Don Quixote and Sancho to his house?

3. What is the finish to the story of the Countess Trifaldi?

4. Why do the ten horsemen take Quixote and Sancho back to the castle of the Duke and Duchess?

5. What happens when Don Quixote is finally defeated by another knight who orders him to return to La Mancha.

6. In a kind of switch, what is Don Quixote's reaction to Sancho's belief about the ride on the wooden flying horse?

7. What is the problem involving the Infanta Antonomasia?

8. In spite of the set up of Sancho as governor of the island of Barataria, how does he do as a governor?

9. Explain why Sancho is conscience stricken after Don Quixote's return from the cave of Montesinos.

10. How does Sancho respond to more problems presented to him?

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