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. What argument does the niece use to try and get her uncle to stay home?
(a) She argues that poor men cannot become knights.
(b) She says that he can go only if he takes her with him.
(c) She suggests that he needs to wait for new armor.
(d) She suggests that his health will not hold out.

2. What happens to the boat Sancho and Quixote expropriate on the river?
(a) It smashes on the wheel at a mill Quixote imagines is another castle.
(b) It stops in the middle of the river and will not go further.
(c) It goes over the falls.
(d) It is sunk by angry people who own the boat.

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

4. How does Sancho's common sense come though during the telling of the Countess' story?
(a) He questions why a Queen would die at the marriage of her daughter.
(b) He says that the idea of turning the princess into a brass monkey is absurd.
(c) He does not believe Don Clavijo could become a metal crocodile.
(d) He suspects the Countess is another of the household maids.

5. What is the irony when Don Quixote speaks to a group of people?
(a) He can only speak things he has read in a book.
(b) His speech is eloquent even though he suffers from madness.
(c) His speech is halting and not at all like that of a noble knight.
(d) His speech sounds madder than his actions.