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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Sancho's plan to deceive Don Quixote about the Lady Dulcinea?
(a) He tells Quixote that Dulcinea has been enchanted and will only be seen as a peasant girl.
(b) He says that the Lady Dulcinea is currently in a convent preparing for her marriage to Quixote.
(c) He tells Quixote that the Lady Dulcinea has left the village and gone to the inn to look for him.
(d) He says that the Lady Dulcinea's father has locked her away in a tower somewhere in the north.

3. How do they manage to escape the Moorish land and take Zoraida with them?
(a) They manage to rob the cruel Moor who is their master.
(b) Zoraida's father learns of her desire to go to a Christian country and helps them.
(c) They are freed in a raid by spanish troops.
(d) She gives them enough money to ransom themselves and buy a boat.

4. How does Cervantes poke fun at his own mistakes in writing the first part of The Adventures of Don Quixote?
(a) He talks about how the characters in his book are unbelievable.
(b) He discusses the absurdity of a man like Don Quixote.
(c) He discusses putting in so many unrelated stories in the book.
(d) He raises the question of the disappearing ass, Dapple, and its unexplained reappearance.

5. What happens when Don Quixote, moved by Eugenio's tale, volunteers to rescue his love and restore her to him?
(a) Eugenio begs to go with Don Quixote to rescue Leandra.
(b) Eugenio says it is too late because Leandra is dead.
(c) Eugenio falls at his feet with tears in his eyes.
(d) They fight when Eugenio suggests that Don Quixote is out of his mind.

6. 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 Sampson.
(d) He is actually a woman.

7. How does Don Quixote interpret the penitents and their effigy of the Virgin?
(a) He sees them as holy men on the way to Jerusalem.
(b) He sees them as criminals who have kidnapped a Lady.
(c) He thinks they have come to set him free of enchantment.
(d) He thinks they are ghosts.

8. As Don Quixote and Sancho Panza look for water in the night, what spooks them?
(a) The sound of many horses
(b) A metallic clanking and the sound of running water
(c) A drum beating in the distance
(d) A ghostly moan over the sound of water

9. Found lying on the ground and severely wounded, where is Don Quixote taken by a neighbor?
(a) To an inn where he thinks he is in a castle.
(b) To the local magistrate who will examine Don Quixote's mental ability.
(c) To his door just as the curate and barber arrive with his niece and housekeeper.
(d) To the village where everyone can see him and make fun of him.

10. What is the challenge to knight errantry presented to Don Quixote by Vivaldo?
(a) Instead of making their last moments in honor of their ladies, knights should instead submit themselves to God.
(b) Vivaldo suggests that the day of knights errant are long past and Don Quizxote should go home.
(c) Vivaldo says that the rules of knight errantry need to be rewritten.
(d) Vivaldo challenges Don Quixote to find and slay a dragon.

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

12. What makes Sancho Panza drop his demand for a salary?
(a) Don Quixote seems ready to accept Sampson as his squire.
(b) He realizes that Don Quixote is penniless and cannot pay.
(c) The curate promises to pay Sancho to go with him as a protection.
(d) He thinks about the isle he will one day reign over.

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

14. 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 pays him with enchanted money that Sancho cannot see.
(c) He says he never read anything like that in his books about knight errantry.
(d) He fires him and starts looking for a replacement.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cervantes plan to see that no further writing is done regarding Don Quixote de La Mancha?

2. What imaginative tale does Dorothea tell Don Quixote?

3. What happens when the barber shows up and recognizes the packsaddle and the basin he lost to Don Quixote?

4. What symbolism does Cervantes use to express the closeness of Quixote and Sancho?

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

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