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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When everyone else leaves the table, where does Sancho go?
(a) To hold a conversation with the Duchess
(b) With the servants to play games
(c) To the moat to take a swim
(d) To the stable to check on Dapple

2. What humiliation awaits Don Quixote at the castle?
(a) A wedding with Altisidora they try to make him think is Dulcinea.
(b) A play about a stupid knight errant.
(c) Sancho finally telling Don Quixote that he will finish his beating.
(d) An elaborate charade that calls for him to submit to pinches and pin pricks.

3. Who challenges Don Quixote and defeats him?
(a) The captain of the guard
(b) The Knight of the Mirrors
(c) The giant of Algiers
(d) The Knight of the White Moon

4. Who tries early in this second part to get Don Quixote to go home?
(a) The niece, the housekeeper, and Teresa Panza.
(b) The Knight of the Wood and the penitents.
(c) The villagers of La Mancha.
(d) The curate, the barber and the bachelor, Sampson.

5. After the stoning, Sancho Panza makes what demand on Don Quixote?
(a) He demands money again after seeing that Don Quixote is a man of means.
(b) He demands a security team to keep them from being beaten.
(c) He demands to be made a knight.
(d) He demands a new horse to ride.

6. What means of travel does the Duenna say the giant Malambruno will send for them to go to him?
(a) A caravan of white elephant
(b) A flying carpet
(c) A large blue bull
(d) A giant wooden, flying horse

7. What are the omens Don Quixote perceives as meanings he will never meet Dulcinea?
(a) Dark clouds and spotted goats
(b) The words of a boy and a hare under Dapple
(c) A falling star and a blood red moon
(d) A box full of crickets and a black cat

8. What happens to the boat Sancho and Quixote expropriate on the river?
(a) It stops in the middle of the river and will not go further.
(b) It smashes on the wheel at a mill Quixote imagines is another castle.
(c) It goes over the falls.
(d) It is sunk by angry people who own the boat.

9. On their trip away from the castle, what misfortune happens to Quixote and Sancho?
(a) They get lost and end up back at the castle.
(b) They get entangled in bird nets.
(c) They stop to eat and their mounts are stolen.
(d) They battle a bull Don Quixote thinks is a dragon.

10. On their way back to La Mancha, who do Don Quixote and Sancho run across?
(a) The barber and the curate who have come looking for him.
(b) The troupe of actors they had met earlier and fought with.
(c) Tosilos, who reveals that he was not enchanted at the duel and also that he didn't follow through with the marriage anyway
(d) Don Quixote's niece who is on her way to Barcelona.

11. What is the significance of Ricote in the the story?
(a) It show how people who know the joke can believe Sancho as a governor.
(b) It takes up a few pages in the story.
(c) It makes a transition for Sancho back into regular life.
(d) It points out the religious persecution of the day.

12. What does Don Quixote want Sancho to do before he leaves to become a governor?
(a) Learn to write and read a little
(b) Learn to speak without using proverbs
(c) Learn how to dress properly
(d) Send a letter to La Mancha so Teresa will know where he is.

13. What is the moral of the story of the braying town going to war with its neighbors?
(a) If you must bray, don't tell anyone.
(b) People who know how to bray should keep quiet.
(c) Not all war is honorable and glorious.
(d) People should not make fun of people who bray.

14. On the galley, Don Quixote gets a royal greeting but what happens to Sancho Panza?
(a) He is tied to the mast.
(b) He is pushed into the sea.
(c) He is forced to be an oarsman.
(d) He is picked up by the crew and tossed around.

15. After the feast at Camacho's house, where does Don Quixote want to go?
(a) The cave of Montesinos
(b) The cathedral at Madrid
(c) The enchanted castle
(d) Back to La Mancha

Short Answer Questions

1. What invitation is given Don Quixote and Sancho when they meet two students and two peasants?

2. What happens as they ride up to meet a Duchess and a Duke?

3. What social gaff does Sancho make in the castle?

4. What plot does the Duchess hatch against Sancho?

5. What does Sancho do in response to Don Quixote's suggestion?

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