This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 48 | Part 1, Chapter 49 | Part 1, Chapter 50 | Part 1, Chapter 51.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Don Quixote's explanation for the way the people at the inn toss Sancho into the air from a blanket?
(a) The castle is enchanted.
(b) Sancho allowed it to happen so Don Quixote could escape.
(c) Sancho had it coming to him.
(d) They had fun with Sancho because they could not do that to a knight errant.

2. As Dorothea tells her story, what does Cardenio suddenly realize?
(a) That she is the farmer's daughter Don Fernando promises to marry.
(b) That she can lead him to Lucinda.
(c) That she is more beautiful than Lucinda.
(d) That he cannot remember Lucinda's face.

3. How does the protagonist slip into the fantasy world of Don Quixote de la Mancha?
(a) From reading books and poems involving knights, chivalry,and adventure
(b) From listening to children's fairy tales
(c) From a blow to his head when he falls off his horse
(d) From the natural deteriorization of old age dementia

4. Why does Lothario think Camilla is being unvirtuous?
(a) He sees her maid's lover leaving the house early one morning.
(b) He thinks she is beginning to respond to him and the poems he writes for her.
(c) He hears that a number of men have been visiting her at home.
(d) He notices that Camilla goes out every afternoon when Anselmo is away.

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