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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 putting in so many unrelated stories in the book.
(d) He discusses the absurdity of a man like Don Quixote.

3. Where does Quixote send Sancho Panza on a mission?
(a) To return to the inn he believes is an enchanted castle
(b) To see the lady Dulcinea
(c) To find the half naked man
(d) To buy provisions for a long camp out in the mountains

4. 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) The knight's squire is Sancho's cousin.
(c) Don Quixote orders them to go away.
(d) They want to talk about their crazy masters.

5. Realizing their mistake, where do Don Quixote and Sancho Panza go to hide only to meet up again with Gines de Pasamonte who steals Sancho's ass?
(a) Back in La Mancha
(b) The inn where they stayed before
(c) The Sierra Morena mountains
(d) The fulling mills

6. What is the story within the story that is found at the inn?
(a) The tale of two cities
(b) The tale of Robin and Marian
(c) The tale of Anselmo and Lothario
(d) The tale of Lancelot and Guinevere

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

8. What happens when they meet a troupe of actors riding in a wagon?
(a) Don Quixote thinks they are emmisaries from the Lady Dulcinea.
(b) Don Quixote thinks they are the king and his court.
(c) Don Quixote asks them for money to support a knight errant.
(d) One actor plays a trick that causes Rozinante to throw Don Quixote.

9. What coincidence does Cervantes use to untangle some of the plot in Chapter 36?
(a) Cardenio finds Lucinda hiding in the stable.
(b) Lucinda and Don Fernando show up at the inn.
(c) Don Quixote comes to his senses and decides to go home.
(d) Don Fernando is attacked by highwaymen and brought to the inn.

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

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

12. 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 he will get high ideas and divorce her.
(c) She says that nobody looks at poor people but they stare at the rich.
(d) She says that he will have relatives coming to him that he never knew he had.

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

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

15. What happens when the barber shows up and recognizes the packsaddle and the basin he lost to Don Quixote?
(a) Don Quixote insists that the basin is the helmet of Mambrino.
(b) Don Quixote pays the man for the helmet and the packsaddle.
(c) Don Quixote challenges the porr barber to a duel.
(d) Don Quixote is convinced the basin is a basin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sancho's plan to deceive Don Quixote about the Lady Dulcinea?

2. Andres, the boy Don Quixote saves from a beating in his early adventures, shows up and tells Quixote never to help him again. Why?

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

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

5. How do they manage to escape the Moorish land and take Zoraida with them?

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