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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sancho show his lack of pretension?
(a) He refuses to sit on a throne.
(b) He rejects being called Don Sancho Panza.
(c) He talks only to the poor.
(d) He wears his everyday clothes.

2. 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 gives lots of banquets for the wealthy.
(d) He invites all knights errant to come to the island.

3. What one last joke is played on Don Quixote and Sancho before they leave the castle?
(a) They tie the tails of Dapple and Roxinante together.
(b) They put the Duchess' handkerchief in Sancho's pants pocket.
(c) Altisidora accuses Quixote of stealing her garters.
(d) They put ants in Don Quixote's armor.

4. What means of travel does the Duenna say the giant Malambruno will send for them to go to him?
(a) A giant wooden, flying horse
(b) A caravan of white elephant
(c) A flying carpet
(d) A large blue bull

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

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

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

8. After the feast at Camacho's house, where does Don Quixote want to go?
(a) Back to La Mancha
(b) The cathedral at Madrid
(c) The enchanted castle
(d) The cave of Montesinos

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

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

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

12. Back in the castle what happens with Quixote and Dona Rodriguez?
(a) He begins to think she is not a bad person after all.
(b) She brings many distasteful things for him to eat.
(c) Quixote keeps his head under the sheets so the Dona will not see his wounds.
(d) The lights go out and they are slapped and pinched in the darkness.

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

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

15. What ignoble disaster befalls Don Quixote and Sancho out in the countryside?
(a) They are attacked by birds.
(b) They fall into a swamp.
(c) They are trampled by swine.
(d) They are robbed of everything.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tosilos reveal himself at the duel?

2. How does the man with the ape know the names of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza?

3. Who arrives next to see the famous Don Quixote?

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

5. Why does Don Quixote go to Barcelona instead of Saragossa?

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