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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the innkeeper use as a holy book of heraldry in the knighthood ceremony?
(a) An old book of chivalry
(b) A Bible
(c) A catalogue
(d) His ledger book

2. What does Don Quixote imagine to be the legendary helmet of Mambrino?
(a) A gravy boat
(b) A tea kettle
(c) A mop bucket
(d) A brass barber's bowl

3. What happens to Sancho Panza when he drinks Don Quixote's balm of wine, oil, salt and rosemary?
(a) He is transformed into a knight errant.
(b) He becomes deathly ill and cannot expel the substance.
(c) He spits it out because it tastes so disgusting.
(d) He starts braying like his mule.

4. What is the gist of the goatherd's tale?
(a) How his goat is the enchanted Leandra.
(b) Betrayal by a woman
(c) Unrequited love for Leandra
(d) How Leandra became a shepardess.

5. Why does Zoraida attempt to correspond with the Captive Captain?
(a) She wants to leave and go to a Christian nation.
(b) She thinks he is the most handsome man she ever saw.
(c) Her father wants to marry her off to an old Moor gentleman.
(d) She fears being sold into slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Don Quixote receive his knighthood?

2. Don Quixote tells Sancho that there is no such thing as a knight errant who is not what?

3. What is the giant that Don Quixote attacks in his sleep?

4. What are four horsemen looking for at the inn?

5. When Sancho tells his wife, Teresa, that he is going again with Don Quixote, what advice does Teresa give?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Dorothea's relationship with Don Fernando.

2. Discuss Don Quixote's choice of penance after the release of the prisoners.

3. Describe how Cervantes suggests that Don Quixote descends into madness.

4. What is the significance of the Knight of the Wood?

5. Relate how Sancho Panza prevents Don Quixote from charging toward a loud noise in the dark of night.

6. Tell the story of how Don Quixote becomes entangled with the criminal, Gines de Pasamonte.

7. What is the story of the Princess Micomicona, of the land of Micomicon?

8. How is the character of Don Quixote enlarged and filled out by Cervantes?

9. Describe how Cervantes presents Sancho as one motivated by money.

10. Describe Rocinante.

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