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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary device is introduced in Chapter nine that helps move the story along and give it credence?
(a) A parallel is drawn between Don Quixote and King Arthur.
(b) Lengthy poetic renditions are added to give the story more authenticity.
(c) A sage is found to travel with Don Quixote and write down his adventures.
(d) A narrator is introduced who discovers an old manuscript about Don Quixote.

2. How do the niece and housekeeper rationalize the disappearance of Don Quixote's books?
(a) They blame the rats.
(b) They make Don Quixote believe he gave them away.
(c) They blame an enchanter.
(d) They blame the curate.

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

4. 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) Everyone laughs at him because he cannot defend himself.
(c) He doesn't want to be any further indebted to the knight errant.
(d) He is punished even worse after Don Quixote rides away.

5. Why does Zoraida attempt to correspond with the Captive Captain?
(a) Her father wants to marry her off to an old Moor gentleman.
(b) She wants to leave and go to a Christian nation.
(c) She fears being sold into slavery.
(d) She thinks he is the most handsome man she ever saw.

6. What imaginative tale does Dorothea tell Don Quixote?
(a) That she is the Princess Micomicona of the land of Micomicon whose kingdom has been taken over by a giant by the name of Pandafilando of the Malignant.
(b) That she must marry a giant to regain her lost kingdom.
(c) That an evil mage has enchanted her kingdom and she cannot return.
(d) That a knight errant will destroy her and take over her kingdom.

7. What symbolism does Cervantes use to express the closeness of Quixote and Sancho?
(a) The sun and the moon
(b) The closeness of Dapple and Rozinante
(c) The Knight of the Wood and his squire
(d) The common belief in enchantment

8. 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.

9. These early adventures of Don Quixote establish what theme that runs throughout the novel?
(a) That his meddling seldom has the resultsfor which he plans.
(b) That he is invincible when he wears his armor.
(c) That the age of chivalry is not dead.
(d) That he wins people over by his great imagination.

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

11. As Don Quixote and Sancho Panza look for water in the night, what spooks them?
(a) A drum beating in the distance
(b) A ghostly moan over the sound of water
(c) The sound of many horses
(d) A metallic clanking and the sound of running water

12. How does Quixote blend knight errantry and sainthood?
(a) He says knights must also be saintly in behavior.
(b) He says every true knight dies with the name of God on his lips.
(c) He says knights are appointed by God.
(d) He says knight errantry is a religion.

13. In yet another tale within the tale, who does the captive captain contrive to rescue?
(a) A princess running away from a marriage she does not want.
(b) A Moorish lady who wishes to be a Christian.
(c) A group of laves about to be impaled.
(d) A woman and her children who are about to be sold as slaves.

14. What does the canon think about drama of his day?
(a) Plays are educational to those who cannot read books.
(b) The plays staged at his time are worthy of high praise.
(c) The plays that are staged nowadays are mirrors of absurdity, patterns of folly, and images of lewdness.
(d) Plays are a reflection of real life and teach valuable morals.

15. What characteristic do Quixote and the innkeeper share as observed by Dorothea and Cardenio?
(a) They are about the same age, height, and build.
(b) They both love the books of chivalry and believe them to be true.
(c) They are both fond of money and use tricks to get it.
(d) They both love fighting with uneducated people.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Don Quixote interpret the penitents and their effigy of the Virgin?

2. Sancho thinks Quixote's captors are not demons at all. What is Quixote's response to that suggestion?

3. How does Sancho Panza regain Dapple?

4. What secret does Don Fernando confide to Cardenio?

5. Don Quixote tells Sancho that there is no such thing as a knight errant who is not what?

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