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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What plot does the Duchess hatch against Sancho?
(a) She send a letter to Sancho saying that Don Quixote is dying.
(b) She tries to seduce Sancho.
(c) She decides to send the same page who played the part of Dulcinea to visit Teresa Panza with Sancho's letter
(d) She plans to send the duenna to Sancho's isle.

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

4. What is the discussion about between Don Diego and Don Quixote?
(a) A comparison of the value of poetry versus the sciences
(b) The lives of the greatest knights errant
(c) The current political situation in Spain
(d) The revival of knight errantry

5. What is the point of the Countess of Trifaldi's story?
(a) It is a trick to get Don Quixote to fight the giant Malambruno.
(b) It is a story to challenge Quixote to tell a better one.
(c) It mocks Don Quixote as being a phony.
(d) It is a plan to get Sancho Panza to leave Don Quixote.

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

7. What does Sancho finally have the courage to tell Don Quixote?
(a) That he is a fool who believes he is a knight.
(b) That he is leaving him and returning to his isle.
(c) That he lied about seeing Dulcinea.
(d) That he will not suffer any more abuse.

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

9. Why does Don Quixote think Dulcinea is still enchanted?
(a) Because Sancho has not helped him find her.
(b) Because he still has a mission to accomplish.
(c) Because he has done something wrong.
(d) Because Sancho never receives his 3,300 spanks on the bottom.

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

11. 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.

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

13. In a scheme to poke fun at Don Quixote and Sancho, who makes an appearance?
(a) An actor dressed as the Devil
(b) The eccliastic dressed as an avenging angel
(c) A cow saddled like a knight's steed
(d) A milkmaid dressed as the Lady Dulcinea

14. What is the dilemma of the steward?
(a) He is supposed to help Sancho but he wants to be the governor himself.
(b) He likes Sancho and does not want to go back to the castle.
(c) He is supposed to destroy Sancho but he sees the good Sancho is doing.
(d) He thinks Sancho is crazy and he can get rich by using him.

15. 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) Dona Rodrigquez de Grijalba
(d) One of the traveling actors they had met earlier

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Quixote do when Sancho must leave to assume his governorship?

2. What humiliation awaits Don Quixote at the castle?

3. What is a result of Sancho Panza's replying to the ecclesiastic in proverbs?

4. What advice does Don Quixote give the young page on the way to the inn?

5. How is Don Quixote wounded back in the Duke's and Duchess' castle?

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