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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the canon so amazed at Don Quixote's speech?
(a) Because he is right about everything he says.
(b) Because he is so articulate and convincing.
(c) Because he can talk for such a long time without stopping.
(d) Because none of it makes any sense whatsoever.

2. What stops the melee at the inn in the middle of the night?
(a) The inn catches on fire.
(b) The police arrive and break up the fighting.
(c) Don Quixote's bed falls through the floor into the room below.
(d) An officer of the Holy Brotherhood believes that Don Quixote is dead.

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

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

5. Who are the surprise visitors to the group?
(a) The ghosts of two knights errant
(b) A goat and its goatherd
(c) Dulcinea and her entourage
(d) Some real demons

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

7. What does Don Quixote imagine to be the legendary helmet of Mambrino?
(a) A mop bucket
(b) A brass barber's bowl
(c) A tea kettle
(d) A gravy boat

8. These early adventures of Don Quixote establish what theme that runs throughout the novel?
(a) That his meddling seldom has the resultsfor which he plans.
(b) That he is invincible when he wears his armor.
(c) That the age of chivalry is not dead.
(d) That he wins people over by his great imagination.

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

10. How does Sancho trick Don Quixote into waiting until morning to investigate the clanking sound?
(a) He points Rocinante in the wrong direction.
(b) He loosens Quixote's saddles so it falls off.
(c) He puts a sleeping powder into Don Quixote's wine.
(d) He ties Rocinante's back legs together.

11. 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) She gives them enough money to ransom themselves and buy a boat.
(d) They are freed in a raid by spanish troops.

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

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

14. As Dorothea tells her story, what does Cardenio suddenly realize?
(a) That she can lead him to Lucinda.
(b) That she is more beautiful than Lucinda.
(c) That she is the farmer's daughter Don Fernando promises to marry.
(d) That he cannot remember Lucinda's face.

15. What kind of reception does Don Quixote receive from the goatherds?
(a) The goarherds laugh at him and send him away.
(b) He is welcomed, fed, entertained and medicated.
(c) He is set upon to see if he has money.
(d) The goatherds fear him because he is mad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Dapple is taken by the actors?

2. What is Cervantes' complaint in the prologue to the second part of The Adventures of Don Quixote?

3. What does the imagery of the Golden Age represent to Don Quixote?

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

5. What happens to Camilla, Anselmo, and Lothario at the end of the tale within the tale?

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