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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Sancho Panza continue to insist that Don Quixote is not enchanted?
(a) Because Quixote needs to relieve himself.
(b) Because Don Quixote complains of hunger.
(c) Because Quixote understands that he is in a cage.
(d) Because he heard the demons talking about stopping to eat.

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

3. What secret does Sancho Panza overhear and tell to Don Quixote?
(a) That Dorothea is not Princess Micomicona.
(b) That the Princess Micomicona no longer has a kingdom.
(c) That the Princess Micomicona has fallen in love with Don Fernando.
(d) That the curate tells the Princess Micomicona to find another champion.

4. What does the imagery of the Golden Age represent to Don Quixote?
(a) A time when there was money for everyone.
(b) The days when literature was at its peak.
(c) A simpler, more peaceful time in the age of chivalry.
(d) The times when uses of metal were discovered.

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. What happens to Sancho Panza when he drinks Don Quixote's balm of wine, oil, salt and rosemary?
(a) He spits it out because it tastes so disgusting.
(b) He becomes deathly ill and cannot expel the substance.
(c) He is transformed into a knight errant.
(d) He starts braying like his mule.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Don Quixote's explanation for the way the people at the inn toss Sancho into the air from a blanket?

2. How does Dorothea get Don Quixote to leave the mountain and travel with her, the curate, the barber, Sancho and Cardenio?

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

4. How does Don Quixote receive his knighthood?

5. Why does Sancho Panza doubt that the enchanted demons are real?

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