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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the protagonist slip into the fantasy world of Don Quixote de la Mancha?
(a) From a blow to his head when he falls off his horse
(b) From listening to children's fairy tales
(c) From reading books and poems involving knights, chivalry,and adventure
(d) From the natural deteriorization of old age dementia

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

3. What imaginative tale does Dorothea tell Don Quixote?
(a) That she is the Princess Micomicona of the land of Micomicon whose kingdom has been taken over by a giant by the name of Pandafilando of the Malignant.
(b) That she must marry a giant to regain her lost kingdom.
(c) That an evil mage has enchanted her kingdom and she cannot return.
(d) That a knight errant will destroy her and take over her kingdom.

4. What is the irony when Don Quixote speaks to a group of people?
(a) His speech is halting and not at all like that of a noble knight.
(b) His speech is eloquent even though he suffers from madness.
(c) His speech sounds madder than his actions.
(d) He can only speak things he has read in a book.

5. 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 the age of chivalry is not dead.
(c) That his meddling seldom has the resultsfor which he plans.
(d) That he is invincible when he wears his armor.

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

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

8. Why is the canon so amazed at Don Quixote's speech?
(a) Because he can talk for such a long time without stopping.
(b) Because he is right about everything he says.
(c) Because none of it makes any sense whatsoever.
(d) Because he is so articulate and convincing.

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

10. What happens to Sancho Panza when he drinks Don Quixote's balm of wine, oil, salt and rosemary?
(a) He starts braying like his mule.
(b) He is transformed into a knight errant.
(c) He becomes deathly ill and cannot expel the substance.
(d) He spits it out because it tastes so disgusting.

11. How does Sancho trick Don Quixote into waiting until morning to investigate the clanking sound?
(a) He loosens Quixote's saddles so it falls off.
(b) He points Rocinante in the wrong direction.
(c) He ties Rocinante's back legs together.
(d) He puts a sleeping powder into Don Quixote's wine.

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

13. What symbolism does Cervantes use to express the closeness of Quixote and Sancho?
(a) The closeness of Dapple and Rozinante
(b) The common belief in enchantment
(c) The Knight of the Wood and his squire
(d) The sun and the moon

14. Why does Lothario think Camilla is being unvirtuous?
(a) He sees her maid's lover leaving the house early one morning.
(b) He hears that a number of men have been visiting her at home.
(c) He thinks she is beginning to respond to him and the poems he writes for her.
(d) He notices that Camilla goes out every afternoon when Anselmo is away.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Don Quixote and Sancho go into the village the next morning, what is their problem?

2. What argument does the niece use to try and get her uncle to stay home?

3. Who has dinner with Don Quixote after Sancho Panza goes home?

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

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

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