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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Sancho come across as he takes charge of his isle?
(a) He starts plotting how to amass great sums of money.
(b) He does not seem as pleased as he thought he would be.
(c) He forgets all his old friends and family.
(d) He becomes grand and snobbish.

3. Why does Tosilos reveal himself at the duel?
(a) He suddenly desires to marry the Duenna's daughter.
(b) He decides he can see better without a helmet.
(c) He doesn't want to harm an old man.
(d) He gets scared and thinks revealing himself will stop Don Quixote.

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

5. What arrangements had the Duke made regarding the duel?
(a) To keep injury to a minimum
(b) To convince Don Quixote that it was all an illusion
(c) To invite the country people to watch
(d) To stop the duel and declare Don Quixote the winner

6. 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 questions why a Queen would die at the marriage of her daughter.
(d) He suspects the Countess is another of the household maids.

7. While staying at the castle of the Duke and Duchess, what does Sancho do every time he gets frightened?
(a) He crawls under a table.
(b) He hides in the Duchess' skirts.
(c) He jumps behind Don Quixote.
(d) He pretends to be the Duke's valet.

8. What social gaff does Sancho make in the castle?
(a) Asking the Duchess' Lady in Waiting to stable his ass
(b) Eating with his fingers
(c) Interrupting Don Quixote while he is talking
(d) Putting his elbows on the table

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

10. 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 is sunk by angry people who own the boat.
(d) It goes over the falls.

11. When the wooden horse arrives, why are Quixote and Sancho blindfolded?
(a) They cannot see where the giant's hideout is.
(b) They have to get their eyes ready to see the giant in his dark castle.
(c) They might get airsick if they could see and look down.
(d) They are told they must do that for the horse to fly.

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

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

14. Why is a substitute used for the man who had been challenged to a duel?
(a) The substitute could be easily beaten.
(b) The substitute was paid a great deal of money.
(c) The actual man had run away to avoid becoming the son-in-law of the Duenna.
(d) The actual man was a relative of the Duke's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sampson's pretend squire leave him?

2. After the stoning, Sancho Panza makes what demand on Don Quixote?

3. What is the significance of Ricote in the the story?

4. Who tries early in this second part to get Don Quixote to go home?

5. Who are the two gentlemen Quixote and Sancho meet in the inn?

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