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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 Quixote comes to his senses and decides to go home.
(c) Cardenio finds Lucinda hiding in the stable.
(d) Don Fernando is attacked by highwaymen and brought to the inn.

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

3. Sancho thinks Quixote's captors are not demons at all. What is Quixote's response to that suggestion?
(a) He tells Sancho that they only appear to be flesh and blood.
(b) He insists that they are demons and he and Sancho have been enchanted.
(c) He agrees with Sancho but can do nothing.
(d) He says that Sancho is so hungry he is hallucinating.

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

5. During the visit of the curate and the barber, why is there a commotion outside Don Quixote's door?
(a) The innkeeper has come to try and collect his money.
(b) The women are trying to prevent Sancho Panza from entering.
(c) Don Quixote's horse has come into the house.
(d) The village people have come, uspet about the latest book.

6. Realizing their mistake, where do Don Quixote and Sancho Panza go to hide only to meet up again with Gines de Pasamonte who steals Sancho's ass?
(a) The Sierra Morena mountains
(b) The fulling mills
(c) Back in La Mancha
(d) The inn where they stayed before

7. In the night, Don Quixote attacks what Sancho fears to be twenty or more ghosts. Why is he victorious?
(a) They cannot see well in the darkness.
(b) They think Don Quixote and Sancho are ghosts.
(c) They are mourners taking a body to Segovia and are unarmed.
(d) They think there are many men attacking them.

8. How does Sancho Panza regain Dapple?
(a) Gines de Pasamonte rides up disguised as a gypsy but Sancho Panza recognizes him.
(b) The mule has bucked off its captor and headed back to La Mancha.
(c) Don Quixote finds the mule in the castle stables.
(d) Don Quixote offers a large reward for the mule.

9. After the beating by the carriers, what does Sancho request that Don Quixote cannot supply?
(a) Fierabras balm that Quixote had said would cure anything.
(b) A suit of armor to protect him against future beatings
(c) Money so that he can return home
(d) Wine to numb his pain

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

11. What is the surprise after Don Quixote defeats the Knight of the Wood?
(a) He is another unreal enchantment.
(b) He is actually Sampson.
(c) He has not actually been knighted.
(d) He is actually a woman.

12. What shows Sancho Panza's simple mind as he meets up with the barber and the curate at the inn?
(a) He now believes the inn is an enchanted castle.
(b) He refuses to give them any information about Don Quixote.
(c) He forgets where he left Don Quixote.
(d) He has forgotten to bring the letter Quixote wrote to Dulcinea.

13. When Sancho tells his wife, Teresa, that he is going again with Don Quixote, what advice does Teresa give?
(a) That he must come home with another 100 crowns or not come home at all.
(b) That this time he will surely die.
(c) To remain in his own station and not think of governorships.
(d) That he should break his leg and get out of going with the madman.

14. What are four horsemen looking for at the inn?
(a) The Captive Captain who had a bounty on his head.
(b) Sancho Panza who has not paid his taxes to the crown.
(c) Don Luis, the boy who is following Clara.
(d) Don Quixote who is wanted by the king.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the canon's opinion of the chivalric tales?

2. On their next adventure, where do Don Quixote and Sancho Panza head first?

3. As Dorothea tells her story, what does Cardenio suddenly realize?

4. How does the protagonist slip into the fantasy world of Don Quixote de la Mancha?

5. What happens when Don Quixote, moved by Eugenio's tale, volunteers to rescue his love and restore her to him?

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