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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the gist of the goatherd's tale?
(a) Unrequited love for Leandra
(b) How his goat is the enchanted Leandra.
(c) Betrayal by a woman
(d) How Leandra became a shepardess.

2. What stops the melee at the inn in the middle of the night?
(a) The police arrive and break up the fighting.
(b) An officer of the Holy Brotherhood believes that Don Quixote is dead.
(c) The inn catches on fire.
(d) Don Quixote's bed falls through the floor into the room below.

3. What happens to Camilla, Anselmo, and Lothario at the end of the tale within the tale?
(a) They all die.
(b) Lothario and Anselmo join the army and Camilla becomes a nun.
(c) They all kiss and make up.
(d) Anselmo dies and Lothario and Camilla marry.

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

5. What does Don Quixote imagine to be the legendary helmet of Mambrino?
(a) A gravy boat
(b) A mop bucket
(c) A tea kettle
(d) A brass barber's bowl

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

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

8. During the visit of the curate and the barber, why is there a commotion outside Don Quixote's door?
(a) Don Quixote's horse has come into the house.
(b) The innkeeper has come to try and collect his money.
(c) The women are trying to prevent Sancho Panza from entering.
(d) The village people have come, uspet about the latest book.

9. What does the canon think about drama of his day?
(a) The plays that are staged nowadays are mirrors of absurdity, patterns of folly, and images of lewdness.
(b) The plays staged at his time are worthy of high praise.
(c) Plays are a reflection of real life and teach valuable morals.
(d) Plays are educational to those who cannot read books.

10. What constantly overcomes Sancho Panza's skepticism about Don Quixote?
(a) Quixote's balm which can cure anything
(b) The real things Don Quixote does.
(c) Sancho begins to see castles too.
(d) The promise of an island to rule

11. What is the plan to transport Don Quixote back to La Mancha?
(a) He is ited to the back of his horse and led to La Mancha.
(b) He is held in a makeshift cage on back of an oxcart.
(c) He is taken prisoner by the king's horsemen.
(d) He is tricked into leading them to La Mancha because Dulcinea has come there.

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

13. 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 raises the question of the disappearing ass, Dapple, and its unexplained reappearance.
(d) He discusses putting in so many unrelated stories in the book.

14. In yet another tale within the tale, who does the captive captain contrive to rescue?
(a) A group of laves about to be impaled.
(b) A woman and her children who are about to be sold as slaves.
(c) A Moorish lady who wishes to be a Christian.
(d) A princess running away from a marriage she does not want.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Don Quixote receive his knighthood?

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

3. On their next adventure, where do Don Quixote and Sancho Panza head first?

4. What imaginative tale does Dorothea tell Don Quixote?

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

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