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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 3 | Part 2, Chapter 4 | Part 2, Chapter 5 | Part 2, Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two of Quixote's chivalric heroes inspire him to do a penance in the mountain?
(a) Valiant and Gawain
(b) Peter and Paul
(c) Arthur and Lancelot
(d) Amadis and Orlando

2. How does Cervantes plan to see that no further writing is done regarding Don Quixote de La Mancha?
(a) By getting a legal restraining order.
(b) By writing the rest of the books in code.
(c) By allowing only a select few people to see his work.
(d) By seeing him dead and buried at the end of Part Two.

3. Who has dinner with Don Quixote after Sancho Panza goes home?
(a) The barber and the priest
(b) The mayor of La Mancha
(c) His housekeeper and his niece
(d) The mischevious student Sampson

4. How does Don Quixote receive his knighthood?
(a) From the innkeeper he imagines as Lord of a great castle
(b) From the prostitutes he imagines as great ladies
(c) From Dulcinea del Toboso
(d) From a passing knight errant

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the visit of the curate and the barber, why is there a commotion outside Don Quixote's door?

2. When Sancho tells his wife, Teresa, that he is going again with Don Quixote, what advice does Teresa give?

3. Andres, the boy Don Quixote saves from a beating in his early adventures, shows up and tells Quixote never to help him again. Why?

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

5. In the night, Don Quixote attacks what Sancho fears to be twenty or more ghosts. Why is he victorious?

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