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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 is a result of Sancho Panza's replying to the ecclesiastic in proverbs?
(a) The Duchess is thrilled that the eccliastic show Sancho up.
(b) Quixote rebukes Sancho again for his provencial speech.
(c) The eccliastic takes notes for a sermon.
(d) The Duke considers that Sancho might make a good governor.

2. How does Cervantes work yet another side plot into his story at the point of boarding the ships?
(a) He te;;s about drunken Turks who abduct a beautiful Christian woman.
(b) He tells about a love affair that goes terribly wrong.
(c) He tells the tale of a Christian woman who is captain of a pirate ship.
(d) He writes about a woman who dresses as a man to find her lover.

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

4. Where are Quixote and Sancho taken by the ten horsemen?
(a) To La Mancha
(b) To the inn that Quixote thinks is a castle
(c) Back to the castle of the Duke and Duchess
(d) To the galleys

5. What is the price Don Quixote must pay for his defeat?
(a) He must give Sancho to the knight.
(b) He must return home.
(c) He must give up Riconante.
(d) He must become the squire of the Knight of the White Moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sancho finally have the courage to tell Don Quixote?

2. When everyone else leaves the table, where does Sancho go?

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

4. What does Don Quixote say he would like to become?

5. Finally, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are invited to a real castle. Who invites them?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Don Antonio disappointed that Quixote and Sancho are returning home?

2. Describe Don Quixote's emotional state as he returns to his home.

3. Discuss Quixote's last hours.

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

5. Highlight Don Quixote's advice to Sancho before he leaves to become governor.

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

7. What trick is played on Sancho that makes him resign his governorship and return to Don Quixote?

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

9. What elaborate set-up does Don Antonio Moreno arrange to have fun with Don Quixote and Sancho?

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

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