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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the irony when Don Quixote speaks to a group of people?
(a) His speech is eloquent even though he suffers from madness.
(b) His speech is halting and not at all like that of a noble knight.
(c) His speech sounds madder than his actions.
(d) He can only speak things he has read in a book.

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

5. How does Don Quixote get around paying a monthly wage to Sancho Panza?
(a) He turns it around and gets Sancho to pay him a monthly wage.
(b) He fires him and starts looking for a replacement.
(c) He pays him with enchanted money that Sancho cannot see.
(d) He says he never read anything like that in his books about knight errantry.

6. 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

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

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

9. How does the protagonist slip into the fantasy world of Don Quixote de la Mancha?
(a) From listening to children's fairy tales
(b) From reading books and poems involving knights, chivalry,and adventure
(c) From a blow to his head when he falls off his horse
(d) From the natural deteriorization of old age dementia

10. How does Don Quixote receive his knighthood?
(a) From a passing knight errant
(b) From Dulcinea del Toboso
(c) From the prostitutes he imagines as great ladies
(d) From the innkeeper he imagines as Lord of a great castle

11. What device does Cervantes use to introduce the comedic nature of Don Quixote?
(a) A gypsy fortune teller
(b) A dream sequence
(c) Talking animals
(d) Silly advice from a friend

12. 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 thinks he sees Dulcinea walking in the moonlight around the inn.
(c) He sees giants walking everywhere in the courtyard of the inn.
(d) He uses a pitchfork in place of his lance which has been broken to pieces.

13. Why does Teresa fear for Sancho suddenly becoming rich?
(a) She says that he knows nothing about handling money and will lose it all.
(b) She says that nobody looks at poor people but they stare at the rich.
(c) She says that he will get high ideas and divorce her.
(d) She says that he will have relatives coming to him that he never knew he had.

14. The niece, the housekeeper, the curate and the barber all agree on what as the cause of Don Quixote's madness?
(a) His poor diet
(b) His vast collection of books
(c) The cheap wine he has been drinking
(d) His extreme old age

15. What is Cervantes' complaint in the prologue to the second part of The Adventures of Don Quixote?
(a) That the first part is really enough except for the public demand for more.
(b) That he is being forced to write a second part to satisfy royalty.
(c) That some writer had written a second part plagirizing the character of Don Quixote.
(d) That he has made no money off of the first part already in circulation.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the visit of the curate and the barber, why is there a commotion outside Don Quixote's door?

2. Where does Quixote send Sancho Panza on a mission?

3. As Don Quixote and Sancho Panza look for water in the night, what spooks them?

4. In yet another coincidence, what happens when a learned judge arrives at the inn with his beautiful daughter?

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

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