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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 nobody looks at poor people but they stare at the rich.
(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 he will get high ideas and divorce her.

2. On their next adventure, where do Don Quixote and Sancho Panza head first?
(a) To Constantinople to start a crusade
(b) Back to the inn that Quixote thinks is a castle
(c) To the mountains for some training
(d) To El Toboso to get the blessing of the Lady Dulcinea

3. What is Marcela's argument that she is not responsible for the death of Chrysostom?
(a) She has warned Chrysostom to leave her alone and find another girl.
(b) She does not know how a nobleman can waste away for a shepherdess.
(c) Her beauty does not obligate her to love those who love her for it.
(d) She knows nothing of Chrysostom's fixation on her.

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) He doesn't want to be any further indebted to the knight errant.
(b) Now no one wants to hire him because they say he has a knight protecting him.
(c) Everyone laughs at him because he cannot defend himself.
(d) He is punished even worse after Don Quixote rides away.

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

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

7. What do the curate and the barber try to avoid when they go to visit Quixote at home?
(a) Talking about Sancho Panza
(b) Reminding Quixote about his knightly obligations
(c) Asking about Dulcinea
(d) Talking about knight errantry

8. 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 the natural deteriorization of old age dementia
(c) From a blow to his head when he falls off his horse
(d) From listening to children's fairy tales

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

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

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

12. How does Don Quixote interpret the penitents and their effigy of the Virgin?
(a) He thinks they are ghosts.
(b) He sees them as criminals who have kidnapped a Lady.
(c) He sees them as holy men on the way to Jerusalem.
(d) He thinks they have come to set him free of enchantment.

13. What happens when Don Quixote, moved by Eugenio's tale, volunteers to rescue his love and restore her to him?
(a) Eugenio falls at his feet with tears in his eyes.
(b) Eugenio says it is too late because Leandra is dead.
(c) Eugenio begs to go with Don Quixote to rescue Leandra.
(d) They fight when Eugenio suggests that Don Quixote is out of his mind.

14. Who has dinner with Don Quixote after Sancho Panza goes home?
(a) His housekeeper and his niece
(b) The barber and the priest
(c) The mischevious student Sampson
(d) The mayor of La Mancha

15. What happens to Camilla, Anselmo, and Lothario at the end of the tale within the tale?
(a) Anselmo dies and Lothario and Camilla marry.
(b) They all die.
(c) Lothario and Anselmo join the army and Camilla becomes a nun.
(d) They all kiss and make up.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the night, Don Quixote attacks what Sancho fears to be twenty or more ghosts. Why is he victorious?

2. Which two of Quixote's chivalric heroes inspire him to do a penance in the mountain?

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

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

5. Why does Zoraida attempt to correspond with the Captive Captain?

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