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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 40 | Part 1, Chapter 41 | Part 1, Chapter 42 | Part 1, Chapter 43.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What stops the melee at the inn in the middle of the night?
(a) The police arrive and break up the fighting.
(b) The inn catches on fire.
(c) Don Quixote's bed falls through the floor into the room below.
(d) An officer of the Holy Brotherhood believes that Don Quixote is dead.

2. 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) Now no one wants to hire him because they say he has a knight protecting him.
(b) He doesn't want to be any further indebted to the knight errant.
(c) Everyone laughs at him because he cannot defend himself.
(d) He is punished even worse after Don Quixote rides away.

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

4. In the night, Don Quixote attacks what Sancho fears to be twenty or more ghosts. Why is he victorious?
(a) They are mourners taking a body to Segovia and are unarmed.
(b) They think there are many men attacking them.
(c) They cannot see well in the darkness.
(d) They think Don Quixote and Sancho are ghosts.

5. How does Sancho trick Don Quixote into waiting until morning to investigate the clanking sound?
(a) He loosens Quixote's saddles so it falls off.
(b) He ties Rocinante's back legs together.
(c) He points Rocinante in the wrong direction.
(d) He puts a sleeping powder into Don Quixote's wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Don Quixote's explanation for the way the people at the inn toss Sancho into the air from a blanket?

2. What imaginative tale does Dorothea tell Don Quixote?

3. In reality, what are the thirty or forty hulking giants Don Quixote attacks only to get seriously injured again?

4. What unlikely group of men does Don Quixote set free and enjoin them to go tell Dulcinea of their release?

5. After the beating by the carriers, what does Sancho request that Don Quixote cannot supply?

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