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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Teresa fear for Sancho suddenly becoming rich?
(a) She says that he will get high ideas and divorce her.
(b) She says that he knows nothing about handling money and will lose it all.
(c) She says that he will have relatives coming to him that he never knew he had.
(d) She says that nobody looks at poor people but they stare at the rich.

2. What is the story within the story that is found at the inn?
(a) The tale of two cities
(b) The tale of Lancelot and Guinevere
(c) The tale of Robin and Marian
(d) The tale of Anselmo and Lothario

3. 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 an evil mage has enchanted her kingdom and she cannot return.
(c) That she must marry a giant to regain her lost kingdom.
(d) That a knight errant will destroy her and take over her kingdom.

4. What is Sancho's plan to deceive Don Quixote about the Lady Dulcinea?
(a) He tells Quixote that the Lady Dulcinea has left the village and gone to the inn to look for him.
(b) He tells Quixote that Dulcinea has been enchanted and will only be seen as a peasant girl.
(c) He says that the Lady Dulcinea's father has locked her away in a tower somewhere in the north.
(d) He says that the Lady Dulcinea is currently in a convent preparing for her marriage to Quixote.

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

6. When Don Quixote sets out again on adventures, who does he take with him?
(a) Sancho Panza
(b) The barber
(c) Dulcinea
(d) Lothario

7. The niece, the housekeeper, the curate and the barber all agree on what as the cause of Don Quixote's madness?
(a) His poor diet
(b) The cheap wine he has been drinking
(c) His vast collection of books
(d) His extreme old age

8. What happens when Dapple is taken by the actors?
(a) Dapple falls in love with a horse that is pulling the actors' wagon.
(b) Dapple throws the actor on his back and returns to Sancho Panza.
(c) Don Quixote will do nothing because they are common people.
(d) Once again, Sancho Panza is forced to walk.

9. Where does Quixote send Sancho Panza on a mission?
(a) To see the lady Dulcinea
(b) To buy provisions for a long camp out in the mountains
(c) To find the half naked man
(d) To return to the inn he believes is an enchanted castle

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

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

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

13. What happens to Sancho Panza when he drinks Don Quixote's balm of wine, oil, salt and rosemary?
(a) He spits it out because it tastes so disgusting.
(b) He becomes deathly ill and cannot expel the substance.
(c) He starts braying like his mule.
(d) He is transformed into a knight errant.

14. What makes Sancho Panza drop his demand for a salary?
(a) Don Quixote seems ready to accept Sampson as his squire.
(b) He realizes that Don Quixote is penniless and cannot pay.
(c) He thinks about the isle he will one day reign over.
(d) The curate promises to pay Sancho to go with him as a protection.

15. Why does Sancho Panza continue to insist that Don Quixote is not enchanted?
(a) Because he heard the demons talking about stopping to eat.
(b) Because Quixote understands that he is in a cage.
(c) Because Quixote needs to relieve himself.
(d) Because Don Quixote complains of hunger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What coincidence does Cervantes use to untangle some of the plot in Chapter 36?

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

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

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

5. What is the irony when Don Quixote speaks to a group of people?

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