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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 Sancho's plan to deceive Don Quixote about the Lady Dulcinea?
(a) He tells Quixote that Dulcinea has been enchanted and will only be seen as a peasant girl.
(b) He says that the Lady Dulcinea's father has locked her away in a tower somewhere in the north.
(c) He tells Quixote that the Lady Dulcinea has left the village and gone to the inn to look for him.
(d) He says that the Lady Dulcinea is currently in a convent preparing for her marriage to Quixote.

2. After the beating by the carriers, what does Sancho request that Don Quixote cannot supply?
(a) Fierabras balm that Quixote had said would cure anything.
(b) Money so that he can return home
(c) Wine to numb his pain
(d) A suit of armor to protect him against future beatings

3. When Sancho tells his wife, Teresa, that he is going again with Don Quixote, what advice does Teresa give?
(a) To remain in his own station and not think of governorships.
(b) That this time he will surely die.
(c) That he must come home with another 100 crowns or not come home at all.
(d) That he should break his leg and get out of going with the madman.

4. 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 has made no money off of the first part already in circulation.
(c) That the first part is really enough except for the public demand for more.
(d) That he is being forced to write a second part to satisfy royalty.

5. As Don Quixote and Sancho Panza look for water in the night, what spooks them?
(a) A metallic clanking and the sound of running water
(b) The sound of many horses
(c) A ghostly moan over the sound of water
(d) A drum beating in the distance

Short Answer Questions

1. In reality, what are the thirty or forty hulking giants Don Quixote attacks only to get seriously injured again?

2. What stops the melee at the inn in the middle of the night?

3. What happens when they meet a troupe of actors riding in a wagon?

4. Who judges the basin to be a helmet, though incomplete?

5. What imaginative tale does Dorothea tell Don Quixote?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Give a physical description of Quizada before he transforms himself into Don Quixote.

4. Discuss Don Quixote's illusions that cause him to do battle with strange things.

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

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

7. When Don Quixote sees a girl Sancho says is Dulcinea, what are the circumstances?

8. Discuss Marcela's defense of herself at the funeral of Chrisostom.

9. How does the student Sampson enter into Don Quixote's life?

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

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