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

2. How does Dorothea get Don Quixote to leave the mountain and travel with her, the curate, the barber, Sancho and Cardenio?
(a) By pretending to be a Queen driven from her country by evil giants.
(b) By reading aloud from a book of chivalry each night.
(c) By pretending to be the sister of the Lady Dulcinea.
(d) By promising to marry him if he gets her home safely.

3. How can the first of Don Quixote's adventures be described?
(a) They are histerically funny adventures that see him victorious.
(b) They are completely imaginary in Don Quixote's head.
(c) They are his first encounters with giants he needs to slay.
(d) They are misadventures that end in disaster for Don Quixote and a boy he tries to save.

4. What constantly overcomes Sancho Panza's skepticism about Don Quixote?
(a) Quixote's balm which can cure anything
(b) The real things Don Quixote does.
(c) The promise of an island to rule
(d) Sancho begins to see castles too.

5. The niece, the housekeeper, the curate and the barber all agree on what as the cause of Don Quixote's madness?
(a) His extreme old age
(b) His poor diet
(c) His vast collection of books
(d) The cheap wine he has been drinking

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the protagonist slip into the fantasy world of Don Quixote de la Mancha?

2. What does the imagery of the Golden Age represent to Don Quixote?

3. What is the cause of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza getting a brutal beating from the Yanguesan carriers?

4. How does Don Quixote get around paying a monthly wage to Sancho Panza?

5. What makes Sancho Panza drop his demand for a salary?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Marcela's defense of herself at the funeral of Chrisostom.

2. Give a physical description of Quizada before he transforms himself into Don Quixote.

3. What happens when the Don and Sancho meet an acting troupe still in costume?

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

5. Relate Don Quixote's battle with the giant of Micomicon.

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

7. Describe the visit of the barber and the curate to Don Quixote after his return home.

8. Relate how Sancho Panza prevents Don Quixote from charging toward a loud noise in the dark of night.

9. How does the student Sampson enter into Don Quixote's life?

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

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