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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Sancho to resign his post and leave his isle?
(a) His homesickness
(b) A trick some men play on him and call him a turtle
(c) His needing to see Don Quixote
(d) His desire to ride Dapple again

2. Why do so many people in Barcelona know Don Quixote's name?
(a) Don Antonio has pinned his name across his back.
(b) Barcelona people are friendlier than others.
(c) People there have read the Benengeli history.
(d) Sancho goes ahead and tells everyone who is coming.

3. What happens when Sancho Panza brays for the town that brays?
(a) They make Sancho their mayor.
(b) They think he is mocking them and they stone Sancho and Don Quixote.
(c) They tell Sancho that he has a lot to learn about braying.
(d) They give Sancho the braying trophy.

4. What sage thing does Sancho say that astonishes Don Quixote?
(a) I pretend my right hand is paralyzed so I have to use my left hand.
(b) Lions will never sleep with lambs.
(c) We are all the same when we sleep.
(d) Anybody can be a governor.

5. When they come to another inn, what does Don Quixote see?
(a) An inn
(b) A castle
(c) A fortress
(d) A cathedral

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

7. How does the man with the ape know the names of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza?
(a) Master Pedro turns out to be Gines de Pasamonte from Volume One
(b) He has a confederate who suppplies him with information.
(c) He has read the first volume.
(d) He asked the ape to find out for him.

8. How is Don Quixote wounded back in the Duke's and Duchess' castle?
(a) By cats with bells tied to them
(b) By a spurned young girl
(c) By falling down the stairs
(d) By sparring with the Duke

9. What strange thing does the bandit, Roque Guinart ,do after his men bring in a group of travelers?
(a) He returns most of their goods and money to them.
(b) He takes all the horses and sends them on walking.
(c) He does not rob them of anything.
(d) He lets everyone go except the President's Lady.

10. Who do they meet at the inn who is mentioned in the false book about Don Quixote?
(a) Sancho Panza's cousin
(b) Don Cardenio
(c) Sampson
(d) Don Alvaro Tarfe

11. Who else does Quixote insist he sees inside the cave?
(a) The Knight of the Wood looking for revenge.
(b) The priest and the barbers looking for the way out.
(c) Dulcinea still enchanted as a peasant girl.
(d) Teresa Panza looking for her husband.

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

13. What does Quixote do when Sancho must leave to assume his governorship?
(a) He gives him good advice for ruling.
(b) He pays Sancho his back wages.
(c) He gets angry that he cannot go, too.
(d) He starts looking for another squire.

14. How does Cervantes work yet another side plot into his story at the point of boarding the ships?
(a) He tells about a love affair that goes terribly wrong.
(b) He te;;s about drunken Turks who abduct a beautiful Christian woman.
(c) He writes about a woman who dresses as a man to find her lover.
(d) He tells the tale of a Christian woman who is captain of a pirate ship.

15. What does Sancho do in response to Don Quixote's suggestion?
(a) He raises taxes and builds schools.
(b) He minds the poor and makes good and just laws, but not too many.
(c) He invites all knights errant to come to the island.
(d) He gives lots of banquets for the wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Roque Guinart handle a mutineer among his men?

2. Finally, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are invited to a real castle. Who invites them?

3. Why do Don Quixote and Sancho believe the outlandish tale?

4. While staying at the castle of the Duke and Duchess, what does Sancho do every time he gets frightened?

5. What comes back to Sancho from his behavior toward Don Quixote?

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