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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) If you must bray, don't tell anyone.
(c) People should not make fun of people who bray.
(d) People who know how to bray should keep quiet.

2. What is the surprise plot twist as Don Quixote lays on his deathbed?
(a) It is revealed that Don Quixote is dying from a broken heart.
(b) He writes a will that leaves Sancho Panza out.
(c) He receives a visit from an angel.
(d) He renounces his knight errantry as madness.

3. 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.

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

5. What is the literary significance of the pit Sancho and Dapple fall into?
(a) It represents the intrigue of the court.
(b) It represents a new beginning for Sancho.
(c) It represents a kind of fall from grace.
(d) It represents how his wife will react when she finds out he quit his job.

6. 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

7. 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 points out the religious persecution of the day.
(d) It makes a transition for Sancho back into regular life.

8. What is a goal of Sancho as he assumes his governorship of his island?
(a) To see that girls stay in the home
(b) To stop boys from dressing like girls
(c) To see that everyone pays taxes
(d) To shut down the gambling houses

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

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

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

12. The curate, the barber, and the bachelor are not in agreement with whom over Quixote's decision to become a shepherd?
(a) The Duke and Duchess
(b) The niece and the housekeeper
(c) Sancho and Teresa
(d) Dulcinea and Maria

13. With what does Don Quixote accidentally crown himself when he puts on his helmet?
(a) Hot bread
(b) Raw eggs
(c) Curds
(d) Cooked beef

14. What do Don Quixote and the Duke do that involves the Duenna?
(a) They accept the challenge to help her daughter.
(b) They write unsigned love letters to her.
(c) They plan to repay her for all the tricks she has played on Quixote.
(d) They decide to play a good trick on her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Quixote continue his tradition of siding with the underdog?

2. What happens when Sancho Panza brays for the town that brays?

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

4. Who challenges Don Quixote and defeats him?

5. Why does Don Quixote think Dulcinea is still enchanted?

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