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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What coincidence does Cervantes use to untangle some of the plot in Chapter 36?
(a) Lucinda and Don Fernando show up at the inn.
(b) Don Fernando is attacked by highwaymen and brought to the inn.
(c) Don Quixote comes to his senses and decides to go home.
(d) Cardenio finds Lucinda hiding in the stable.

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

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

4. What constantly overcomes Sancho Panza's skepticism about Don Quixote?
(a) The promise of an island to rule
(b) The real things Don Quixote does.
(c) Sancho begins to see castles too.
(d) Quixote's balm which can cure anything

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

6. What is Sancho's plan to deceive Don Quixote about the Lady Dulcinea?
(a) He tells Quixote that Dulcinea has been enchanted and will only be seen as a peasant girl.
(b) He tells Quixote that the Lady Dulcinea has left the village and gone to the inn to look for him.
(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.

7. What unlikely group of men does Don Quixote set free and enjoin them to go tell Dulcinea of their release?
(a) A group of soldiers on military training
(b) A group of actors rehearsing for a play
(c) A group of criminals being taken to the galleys
(d) A group of Christians captured by the Moors

8. How does Cervantes poke fun at his own mistakes in writing the first part of The Adventures of Don Quixote?
(a) He raises the question of the disappearing ass, Dapple, and its unexplained reappearance.
(b) He talks about how the characters in his book are unbelievable.
(c) He discusses the absurdity of a man like Don Quixote.
(d) He discusses putting in so many unrelated stories in the book.

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

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

11. What happens when the barber shows up and recognizes the packsaddle and the basin he lost to Don Quixote?
(a) Don Quixote is convinced the basin is a basin.
(b) Don Quixote pays the man for the helmet and the packsaddle.
(c) Don Quixote challenges the porr barber to a duel.
(d) Don Quixote insists that the basin is the helmet of Mambrino.

12. What secret does Don Fernando confide to Cardenio?
(a) That some girl's father is trying to kill him.
(b) Many sexual experiences with poor girls in his village
(c) An illegitimate child by a farmer's daughter
(d) An affair with a farmer's daughter he promised to marry

13. What is the giant that Don Quixote attacks in his sleep?
(a) The pillows on his bed
(b) The inn's windmill
(c) Expensive wineskins filled with wine
(d) Pumpkins stacked in a corner

14. What device does Cervantes use to introduce the comedic nature of Don Quixote?
(a) Talking animals
(b) Silly advice from a friend
(c) A dream sequence
(d) A gypsy fortune teller

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Don Quixote sets out again on adventures, who does he take with him?

2. What do the curate and the barber try to avoid when they go to visit Quixote at home?

3. What symbolism does Cervantes use to express the closeness of Quixote and Sancho?

4. Found lying on the ground and severely wounded, where is Don Quixote taken by a neighbor?

5. As Don Quixote and Sancho Panza look for water in the night, what spooks them?

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