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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. On their trip away from the castle, what misfortune happens to Quixote and Sancho?
(a) They stop to eat and their mounts are stolen.
(b) They get lost and end up back at the castle.
(c) They battle a bull Don Quixote thinks is a dragon.
(d) They get entangled in bird nets.

2. Who are the two gentlemen Quixote and Sancho meet in the inn?
(a) Don Leandro and Don Camacho.
(b) Don Jeronimo and Don Juan.
(c) Don Juan and Don Carlos.
(d) Don Luis and Don Cardenio.

3. What humiliation awaits Don Quixote at the castle?
(a) A wedding with Altisidora they try to make him think is Dulcinea.
(b) An elaborate charade that calls for him to submit to pinches and pin pricks.
(c) Sancho finally telling Don Quixote that he will finish his beating.
(d) A play about a stupid knight errant.

4. 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 the tale of a Christian woman who is captain of a pirate ship.
(c) He tells about a love affair that goes terribly wrong.
(d) He writes about a woman who dresses as a man to find her lover.

5. On the galley, Don Quixote gets a royal greeting but what happens to Sancho Panza?
(a) He is tied to the mast.
(b) He is picked up by the crew and tossed around.
(c) He is forced to be an oarsman.
(d) He is pushed into the sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the man with the ape know the names of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza?

2. Why is Don Antonio not pleased with the arrangement of Don Quixote going home?

3. What are the omens Don Quixote perceives as meanings he will never meet Dulcinea?

4. Why do Don Quixote and Sancho believe the outlandish tale?

5. What is the surprise plot twist as Don Quixote lays on his deathbed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What second encounter with livestock happens to the Don and Sancho before they are arrested by the ten horsemen?

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

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

7. How does Sancho show his ignorance upon entering the castle of the Duchess and the Duke?

8. How does the Duchess use her conversation with Sancho Panza?

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

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

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