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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two of Quixote's chivalric heroes inspire him to do a penance in the mountain?
(a) Arthur and Lancelot
(b) Amadis and Orlando
(c) Valiant and Gawain
(d) Peter and Paul

2. How does Dorothea get Don Quixote to leave the mountain and travel with her, the curate, the barber, Sancho and Cardenio?
(a) By promising to marry him if he gets her home safely.
(b) By pretending to be a Queen driven from her country by evil giants.
(c) By reading aloud from a book of chivalry each night.
(d) By pretending to be the sister of the Lady Dulcinea.

3. In reality, what are the thirty or forty hulking giants Don Quixote attacks only to get seriously injured again?
(a) Haystacks
(b) Oak trees
(c) Large rocks
(d) Windmills

4. 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) Lengthy poetic renditions are added to give the story more authenticity.
(c) A narrator is introduced who discovers an old manuscript about Don Quixote.
(d) A parallel is drawn between Don Quixote and King Arthur.

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

6. 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 Sierra Morena mountains
(c) The inn where they stayed before
(d) The fulling mills

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

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

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

10. 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) His poor diet
(c) His extreme old age
(d) The cheap wine he has been drinking

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

12. 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 raises the question of the disappearing ass, Dapple, and its unexplained reappearance.
(c) He discusses the absurdity of a man like Don Quixote.
(d) He discusses putting in so many unrelated stories in the book.

13. What is Don Quixote's explanation for the way the people at the inn toss Sancho into the air from a blanket?
(a) They had fun with Sancho because they could not do that to a knight errant.
(b) The castle is enchanted.
(c) Sancho had it coming to him.
(d) Sancho allowed it to happen so Don Quixote could escape.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. These early adventures of Don Quixote establish what theme that runs throughout the novel?

2. What is the irony when Don Quixote speaks to a group of people?

3. How does Don Quixote get around paying a monthly wage to Sancho Panza?

4. What secret does Don Fernando confide to Cardenio?

5. What secret does Sancho Panza overhear and tell to Don Quixote?

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