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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What common object becomes the means of correspondence with the Captive Captain?
(a) A cane
(b) A bottle
(c) A pillowcase
(d) A teapot

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

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

4. Why does Sancho Panza doubt that the enchanted demons are real?
(a) He does not believe in demons.
(b) He overhears them speaking in his native tongue.
(c) He touches them and they feel like human bodies.
(d) He sees that they leave footprints when they walk.

5. How does Don Quixote believe he has been enchanted in the night as he guards the inn?
(a) He is tricked into being tied by one hand in the barn loft as he stands on the back of Rozinante.
(b) He uses a pitchfork in place of his lance which has been broken to pieces.
(c) He thinks he sees Dulcinea walking in the moonlight around the inn.
(d) He sees giants walking everywhere in the courtyard of the inn.

6. What is the canon's opinion of the chivalric tales?
(a) He thinks they should be read by all educated people.
(b) He says that he has never read one of them.
(c) He hopes they will restore chivalry to the world.
(d) He says that the so-called books of chivalry are most harmful to the commonwealth.

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

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

9. In the goatherd's tale, who is Marcella?
(a) The daughter of a wealthy man who begins acting as a shepherdess.
(b) The princess of El Toboso.
(c) A cruel murderess.
(d) The milkmaid who marries a king.

10. How do they manage to escape the Moorish land and take Zoraida with them?
(a) Zoraida's father learns of her desire to go to a Christian country and helps them.
(b) They manage to rob the cruel Moor who is their master.
(c) They are freed in a raid by spanish troops.
(d) She gives them enough money to ransom themselves and buy a boat.

11. Who comes to inform Don Quixote of the book that has been written about him?
(a) The mischevious student Sampson
(b) Juana Panza
(c) The mayor of La Mancha
(d) The canon

12. Why do Sancho and the squire of the Knight of the Wood go off by themselves?
(a) The knight's squire is Sancho's cousin.
(b) Don Quixote orders them to go away.
(c) They want to talk about their crazy masters.
(d) The Knight of the Wood is shocked that Sancho speaks up so freely.

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

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

15. When Don Quixote and Sancho go into the village the next morning, what is their problem?
(a) Dulcinea has traveled to Madrid to visit the Queen.
(b) Dulcinea is in the village selling wheat but they do not recognize her.
(c) Neither of them has ever seen Dulcinea and they do not know where to find her.
(d) The priest at the church thinks they are up to no good and refuses to tell them where to find Dulcinea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What argument does the niece use to try and get her uncle to stay home?

2. What happens to Sancho Panza when he drinks Don Quixote's balm of wine, oil, salt and rosemary?

3. What is the giant that Don Quixote attacks in his sleep?

4. What unlikely group of men does Don Quixote set free and enjoin them to go tell Dulcinea of their release?

5. What shows Sancho Panza's simple mind as he meets up with the barber and the curate at the inn?

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