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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 47 | Part 2, Chapter 48 | Part 2, Chapter 49 | Part 2, Chapter 50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 puts a sleeping powder into Don Quixote's wine.
(d) He points Rocinante in the wrong direction.

2. What is the point of the Countess of Trifaldi's story?
(a) It mocks Don Quixote as being a phony.
(b) It is a trick to get Don Quixote to fight the giant Malambruno.
(c) It is a story to challenge Quixote to tell a better one.
(d) It is a plan to get Sancho Panza to leave Don Quixote.

3. Who is the unexpected pleasure for Don Quixote in Don Diego's house?
(a) Don Diego's personal chef
(b) Don Diego's young wife
(c) Don Diego's beautiful daughter
(d) Don Lorenzo, Don Diego's poet son

4. Why is the canon so amazed at Don Quixote's speech?
(a) Because he can talk for such a long time without stopping.
(b) Because none of it makes any sense whatsoever.
(c) Because he is right about everything he says.
(d) Because he is so articulate and convincing.

5. Don Quixote tells Sancho that there is no such thing as a knight errant who is not what?
(a) In love
(b) Without armor
(c) In poverty
(d) Very old

Short Answer Questions

1. What device does Cervantes use to introduce the comedic nature of Don Quixote?

2. How does Cervantes plan to see that no further writing is done regarding Don Quixote de La Mancha?

3. How does Dorothea get Don Quixote to leave the mountain and travel with her, the curate, the barber, Sancho and Cardenio?

4. How does Don Quixote impress Don Diego de Miranda?

5. What characteristic do Quixote and the innkeeper share as observed by Dorothea and Cardenio?

(see the answer key)

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