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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Cervantes poke fun at his own mistakes in writing the first part of The Adventures of Don Quixote?
(a) He discusses the absurdity of a man like Don Quixote.
(b) He talks about how the characters in his book are unbelievable.
(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.

4. How does Quixote blend knight errantry and sainthood?
(a) He says knights must also be saintly in behavior.
(b) He says every true knight dies with the name of God on his lips.
(c) He says knights are appointed by God.
(d) He says knight errantry is a religion.

5. 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.

6. 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 the Princess Micomicona has fallen in love with Don Fernando.
(d) That Dorothea is not Princess Micomicona.

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

8. How do the curate and the barber plan to get Quixote to return with them to La Mancha?
(a) They send a false message saying Dulcinea bids Quixote to come to her immediately.
(b) They change all the road signs along the way.
(c) They plan to tie him up in his sleep.
(d) They make him believe that the giants have invaded La Mancha.

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

10. 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 puts a sleeping powder into Don Quixote's wine.
(c) He points Rocinante in the wrong direction.
(d) He ties Rocinante's back legs together.

11. 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 think there are many men attacking them.
(c) They think Don Quixote and Sancho are ghosts.
(d) They are mourners taking a body to Segovia and are unarmed.

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

13. 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) Fierabras balm that Quixote had said would cure anything.
(c) Money so that he can return home
(d) Wine to numb his pain

14. 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

15. 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 his door just as the curate and barber arrive with his niece and housekeeper.
(c) To an inn where he thinks he is in a castle.
(d) To the village where everyone can see him and make fun of him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Don Quixote's explanation for the way the people at the inn toss Sancho into the air from a blanket?

2. What is Cervantes' complaint in the prologue to the second part of The Adventures of Don Quixote?

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

4. In yet another tale within the tale, who does the captive captain contrive to rescue?

5. How does Don Quixote interpret the penitents and their effigy of the Virgin?

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