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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 is the irony when Don Quixote speaks to a group of people?
(a) His speech is eloquent even though he suffers from madness.
(b) He can only speak things he has read in a book.
(c) His speech is halting and not at all like that of a noble knight.
(d) His speech sounds madder than his actions.

2. How does Cervantes poke fun at his own mistakes in writing the first part of The Adventures of Don Quixote?
(a) He talks about how the characters in his book are unbelievable.
(b) He raises the question of the disappearing ass, Dapple, and its unexplained reappearance.
(c) He discusses putting in so many unrelated stories in the book.
(d) He discusses the absurdity of a man like Don Quixote.

3. What is the cause of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza getting a brutal beating from the Yanguesan carriers?
(a) Don Quixote's idea that the carriers are enemy soldiers.
(b) Sancho's attempt to get back hos mule
(c) Don Quixote's attempt to secure two horses for himself and Sancho
(d) Rozinante's attempt to mate with their pirze mares

4. What happens to Camilla, Anselmo, and Lothario at the end of the tale within the tale?
(a) Lothario and Anselmo join the army and Camilla becomes a nun.
(b) They all kiss and make up.
(c) Anselmo dies and Lothario and Camilla marry.
(d) They all die.

5. What is Cervantes' complaint in the prologue to the second part of The Adventures of Don Quixote?
(a) That some writer had written a second part plagirizing the character of Don Quixote.
(b) That he is being forced to write a second part to satisfy royalty.
(c) That the first part is really enough except for the public demand for more.
(d) That he has made no money off of the first part already in circulation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What secret does Sancho Panza overhear and tell to Don Quixote?

2. The niece, the housekeeper, the curate and the barber all agree on what as the cause of Don Quixote's madness?

3. What is Don Quixote's explanation for the way the people at the inn toss Sancho into the air from a blanket?

4. What is the gist of the goatherd's tale?

5. What happens to Sancho Panza when he drinks Don Quixote's balm of wine, oil, salt and rosemary?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Relate Don Quixote's battle with the giant of Micomicon.

3. What happens when the Don and Sancho meet an acting troupe still in costume?

4. Describe Dorothea's relationship with Don Fernando.

5. Outline the story of what Anselmo wants Lothario to do.

6. How do many people abuse Don Quixote's madness?

7. Describe the visit of the barber and the curate to Don Quixote after his return home.

8. Before the start of the second part of their adventures, why do Sancho and Don Quixote have a disagreement?

9. Give evidence that the farmer's daughter is a popular theme in Cervantes' writing.

10. Describe Rocinante.

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