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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 are freed in a raid by spanish troops.
(c) She gives them enough money to ransom themselves and buy a boat.
(d) They manage to rob the cruel Moor who is their master.

2. Don Quixote tells Sancho that there is no such thing as a knight errant who is not what?
(a) Without armor
(b) In love
(c) In poverty
(d) Very old

3. Why does Zoraida attempt to correspond with the Captive Captain?
(a) She wants to leave and go to a Christian nation.
(b) Her father wants to marry her off to an old Moor gentleman.
(c) She fears being sold into slavery.
(d) She thinks he is the most handsome man she ever saw.

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

5. How can the first of Don Quixote's adventures be described?
(a) They are his first encounters with giants he needs to slay.
(b) They are completely imaginary in Don Quixote's head.
(c) They are histerically funny adventures that see him victorious.
(d) They are misadventures that end in disaster for Don Quixote and a boy he tries to save.

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

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

8. What secret does Don Fernando confide to Cardenio?
(a) An illegitimate child by a farmer's daughter
(b) An affair with a farmer's daughter he promised to marry
(c) Many sexual experiences with poor girls in his village
(d) That some girl's father is trying to kill him.

9. What argument does the niece use to try and get her uncle to stay home?
(a) She says that he can go only if he takes her with him.
(b) She suggests that he needs to wait for new armor.
(c) She suggests that his health will not hold out.
(d) She argues that poor men cannot become knights.

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

11. Why does Sancho Panza doubt that the enchanted demons are real?
(a) He touches them and they feel like human bodies.
(b) He overhears them speaking in his native tongue.
(c) He does not believe in demons.
(d) He sees that they leave footprints when they walk.

12. In yet another coincidence, what happens when a learned judge arrives at the inn with his beautiful daughter?
(a) The girl turns out to be Zoraida's long lost sister.
(b) The judge has come to take Don Quixote back to La Mancha.
(c) The judge is looking for some escaped criminals.
(d) The Captive Captain recognizes the judge as his brother.

13. What is the cause of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza getting a brutal beating from the Yanguesan carriers?
(a) Rozinante's attempt to mate with their pirze mares
(b) Don Quixote's attempt to secure two horses for himself and Sancho
(c) Sancho's attempt to get back hos mule
(d) Don Quixote's idea that the carriers are enemy soldiers.

14. 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 loosens Quixote's saddles so it falls off.
(d) He points Rocinante in the wrong direction.

15. 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) One actor plays a trick that causes Rozinante to throw Don Quixote.
(c) Don Quixote asks them for money to support a knight errant.
(d) Don Quixote thinks they are the king and his court.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sancho tells his wife, Teresa, that he is going again with Don Quixote, what advice does Teresa give?

2. What stops the melee at the inn in the middle of the night?

3. Why does Sancho Panza continue to insist that Don Quixote is not enchanted?

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

5. Who comes to inform Don Quixote of the book that has been written about him?

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