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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Sancho and the squire of the Knight of the Wood go off by themselves?
(a) Don Quixote orders them to go away.
(b) The Knight of the Wood is shocked that Sancho speaks up so freely.
(c) They want to talk about their crazy masters.
(d) The knight's squire is Sancho's cousin.

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

3. What argument does the niece use to try and get her uncle to stay home?
(a) She says that he can go only if he takes her with him.
(b) She suggests that he needs to wait for new armor.
(c) She argues that poor men cannot become knights.
(d) She suggests that his health will not hold out.

4. What happens when the barber shows up and recognizes the packsaddle and the basin he lost to Don Quixote?
(a) Don Quixote pays the man for the helmet and the packsaddle.
(b) Don Quixote is convinced the basin is a basin.
(c) Don Quixote insists that the basin is the helmet of Mambrino.
(d) Don Quixote challenges the porr barber to a duel.

5. What secret does Don Fernando confide to Cardenio?
(a) An illegitimate child by a farmer's daughter
(b) Many sexual experiences with poor girls in his village
(c) An affair with a farmer's daughter he promised to marry
(d) That some girl's father is trying to kill him.

6. 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 sees her maid's lover leaving the house early one morning.
(d) He hears that a number of men have been visiting her at home.

7. Found lying on the ground and severely wounded, where is Don Quixote taken by a neighbor?
(a) To an inn where he thinks he is in a castle.
(b) To the local magistrate who will examine Don Quixote's mental ability.
(c) To his door just as the curate and barber arrive with his niece and housekeeper.
(d) To the village where everyone can see him and make fun of him.

8. What symbolism does Cervantes use to express the closeness of Quixote and Sancho?
(a) The sun and the moon
(b) The Knight of the Wood and his squire
(c) The closeness of Dapple and Rozinante
(d) The common belief in enchantment

9. What unlikely group of men does Don Quixote set free and enjoin them to go tell Dulcinea of their release?
(a) A group of criminals being taken to the galleys
(b) A group of soldiers on military training
(c) A group of actors rehearsing for a play
(d) A group of Christians captured by the Moors

10. Why does Teresa fear for Sancho suddenly becoming rich?
(a) She says that nobody looks at poor people but they stare at the rich.
(b) She says that he will get high ideas and divorce her.
(c) She says that he will have relatives coming to him that he never knew he had.
(d) She says that he knows nothing about handling money and will lose it all.

11. Andres, the boy Don Quixote saves from a beating in his early adventures, shows up and tells Quixote never to help him again. Why?
(a) He doesn't want to be any further indebted to the knight errant.
(b) Everyone laughs at him because he cannot defend himself.
(c) Now no one wants to hire him because they say he has a knight protecting him.
(d) He is punished even worse after Don Quixote rides away.

12. Don Quixote tells Sancho that there is no such thing as a knight errant who is not what?
(a) Very old
(b) Without armor
(c) In poverty
(d) In love

13. How do the curate and the barber plan to get Quixote to return with them to La Mancha?
(a) They plan to tie him up in his sleep.
(b) They change all the road signs along the way.
(c) They make him believe that the giants have invaded La Mancha.
(d) They send a false message saying Dulcinea bids Quixote to come to her immediately.

14. After the beating by the carriers, what does Sancho request that Don Quixote cannot supply?
(a) Fierabras balm that Quixote had said would cure anything.
(b) A suit of armor to protect him against future beatings
(c) Wine to numb his pain
(d) Money so that he can return home

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What imaginative tale does Dorothea tell Don Quixote?

2. What constantly overcomes Sancho Panza's skepticism about Don Quixote?

3. How does Cervantes poke fun at his own mistakes in writing the first part of The Adventures of Don Quixote?

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

5. What kind of reception does Don Quixote receive from the goatherds?

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