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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ruse do Basilio and Quiteria play on the bridegroom, Camacho?
(a) Sending another heavily veiled girl in to wed Camacho.
(b) Telling Camacho that Quiteria is pregnant with Basilio's child.
(c) Pretending that Basilio has kidnapped Quiteria.
(d) Quiteria marrying Basilio when it appears he is about to die.

2. What observation does Sancho Panza make when the steward comes to take him to his governorship?
(a) No one has told him where his governorship is.
(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) The steward is the one who plays the part of Countess Trifaldi.

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

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

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

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

7. What advice does Don Quixote give the young page on the way to the inn?
(a) That he should look for a knight to serve.
(b) That the military is a good life with chance for advancement.
(c) That he should go to Italy.
(d) That he should go back to his master he ran away from.

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

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

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

11. Finally, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are invited to a real castle. Who invites them?
(a) A prince of the realm
(b) Camila de Camacho
(c) A real Duke and Duchess
(d) Dona Rodrigquez de Grijalba

12. At the inn, what does Sancho happily observe?
(a) Don Quixote does not mistake this inn for a castle.
(b) The page will buy his meal.
(c) The priest and the barber are waiting there for them.
(d) This time there is a room for them in the inn.

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

14. How does the man with the ape know the names of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza?
(a) Master Pedro turns out to be Gines de Pasamonte from Volume One
(b) He has read the first volume.
(c) He has a confederate who suppplies him with information.
(d) He asked the ape to find out for him.

15. What sage thing does Sancho say that astonishes Don Quixote?
(a) Anybody can be a governor.
(b) I pretend my right hand is paralyzed so I have to use my left hand.
(c) We are all the same when we sleep.
(d) Lions will never sleep with lambs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What humiliation awaits Don Quixote at the castle?

2. When the wooden horse arrives, why are Quixote and Sancho blindfolded?

3. When they come to another inn, what does Don Quixote see?

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

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

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