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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do Don Quixote and Sancho believe the outlandish tale?
(a) Because they believe any tale that involves a damsel in distress.
(b) Because Malambruno is supposed to be a clever enchanter.
(c) Because the Duke and duchess appear to believe it.
(d) Because they have been drugged during dinner.

3. What madness does the puppet show bring on in the mind of Don Quixote?
(a) He believes the puppets are warning him against a danger.
(b) He thinks the Moors chasing the Catholic lovers are real and he attacks them.
(c) He believes the puppets are enchanted and need a magician.
(d) He jumps on his horse and goes looking for Moors.

4. Who does Sancho get into an argument with about waiting women?
(a) The stable boy dressed as a woman
(b) A scullery maid from the Duke's kitchen
(c) One of the traveling actors they had met earlier
(d) Dona Rodrigquez de Grijalba

5. What happens as they ride up to meet a Duchess and a Duke?
(a) They knock over the tent where the Duke and Duchess are sitting.
(b) They allow Dapple and Rozinante to eat from the table.
(c) Don Quixote see them as evil rulers.
(d) They make fools of themselves falling off their mounts.

6. Why does Don Quixote go to Barcelona instead of Saragossa?
(a) He resolves to go to Barcelona just to discredit the Benengeli history.
(b) Don Jeronimo and Don Juan are going to Barcelona.
(c) Barcelona is closer.
(d) The Saragossa tournament has been canceled.

7. What invitation is given Don Quixote and Sancho when they meet two students and two peasants?
(a) A duel between Camacho and Basilio, a former lover of Quiteria
(b) The local fair and festival
(c) The sports games of the county
(d) The wedding of Quiteria the Fair to Camacho the Rich

8. Because Quixote is so despondent, what does Sancho agree to do for money?
(a) He will beat himself for a set amount per lash.
(b) He will find the person who enchanted Dulcinea.
(c) He will trade Dapple for Dulcinea.
(d) He will go and bring Dulcinea to Quixote.

9. What delights Sancho at the wedding?
(a) The fine bed he is given
(b) The beautiful dancing girls
(c) The acrobats
(d) Camacho's vast wealth

10. What is the irony of Sancho's coming into political power?
(a) Before he could not have rich food because he was poor; now it is because the doctor thinks it is not good for him.
(b) Suddenly he has no friends which is unusual for a man like Sancho.
(c) Sancho is so accustomed to having Don Quixote tell him what to do, he is unhappy.
(d) Sancho id becoming the kind of man he has always resented.

11. What does Don Quixote say he would like to become?
(a) A professor
(b) A shepherd
(c) A banker
(d) A cleric

12. Who is the mysterious Knight of the White Moon?
(a) Sampson
(b) Don Antonio
(c) Teresa Panza
(d) Pedro Perez

13. What is a result of Sancho Panza's replying to the ecclesiastic in proverbs?
(a) The Duke considers that Sancho might make a good governor.
(b) Quixote rebukes Sancho again for his provencial speech.
(c) The Duchess is thrilled that the eccliastic show Sancho up.
(d) The eccliastic takes notes for a sermon.

14. Who arrives next to see the famous Don Quixote?
(a) Countess Trifaldi, also called the Doleful Duenna
(b) Sir Lancelot of the Round Table
(c) The Duke of Earl
(d) Queen Guenevere

15. How does Sancho's common sense come though during the telling of the Countess' story?
(a) He suspects the Countess is another of the household maids.
(b) He does not believe Don Clavijo could become a metal crocodile.
(c) He questions why a Queen would die at the marriage of her daughter.
(d) He says that the idea of turning the princess into a brass monkey is absurd.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sage thing does Sancho say that astonishes Don Quixote?

2. What means of travel does the Duenna say the giant Malambruno will send for them to go to him?

3. What does Don Quixote want Sancho to do before he leaves to become a governor?

4. What one last joke is played on Don Quixote and Sancho before they leave the castle?

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

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