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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who challenges Don Quixote and defeats him?
(a) The Knight of the Mirrors
(b) The captain of the guard
(c) The Knight of the White Moon
(d) The giant of Algiers

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

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

4. 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

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

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

7. What is the significance of Ricote in the the story?
(a) It makes a transition for Sancho back into regular life.
(b) It takes up a few pages in the story.
(c) It show how people who know the joke can believe Sancho as a governor.
(d) It points out the religious persecution of the day.

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

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

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

11. Who is the unexpected pleasure for Don Quixote in Don Diego's house?
(a) Don Diego's personal chef
(b) Don Lorenzo, Don Diego's poet son
(c) Don Diego's beautiful daughter
(d) Don Diego's young wife

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

13. What observation does Sancho Panza make when the steward comes to take him to his governorship?
(a) The steward is the one who plays the part of Countess Trifaldi.
(b) It should be a baron to take him to such a place.
(c) The Duke and Duchess are not there to see him off.
(d) No one has told him where his governorship is.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who else does Quixote insist he sees inside the cave?

2. What comes back to Sancho from his behavior toward Don Quixote?

3. Who does Sancho get into an argument with about waiting women?

4. Why do so many people in Barcelona know Don Quixote's name?

5. How does Don Quixote impress Don Diego de Miranda?

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