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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. Realizing their mistake, where do Don Quixote and Sancho Panza go to hide only to meet up again with Gines de Pasamonte who steals Sancho's ass?
(a) Back in La Mancha
(b) The Sierra Morena mountains
(c) The inn where they stayed before
(d) The fulling mills

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

3. Who judges the basin to be a helmet, though incomplete?
(a) The curate
(b) The innkeeper
(c) Dorothea
(d) The barber from La Mancha

4. What is the story within the story that is found at the inn?
(a) The tale of two cities
(b) The tale of Robin and Marian
(c) The tale of Anselmo and Lothario
(d) The tale of Lancelot and Guinevere

5. How do they manage to escape the Moorish land and take Zoraida with them?
(a) They are freed in a raid by spanish troops.
(b) Zoraida's father learns of her desire to go to a Christian country and helps them.
(c) She gives them enough money to ransom themselves and buy a boat.
(d) They manage to rob the cruel Moor who is their master.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the beating by the carriers, what does Sancho request that Don Quixote cannot supply?

2. What constantly overcomes Sancho Panza's skepticism about Don Quixote?

3. What happens when the barber shows up and recognizes the packsaddle and the basin he lost to Don Quixote?

4. What characteristic do Quixote and the innkeeper share as observed by Dorothea and Cardenio?

5. How does Dorothea get Don Quixote to leave the mountain and travel with her, the curate, the barber, Sancho and Cardenio?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens while Don Quixote is allowed out of the cage on the oxcart?

2. What is Sancho's comic rationale for believing Don Quixote is not in an enchanted cage at all?

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

4. How does Don Quixote contrast the life of a soldier and that of a scholar?

5. How does Teresa Panza show her practical side?

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

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

8. Summarize Don Quixote's idea of the Golden Age.

9. Describe Rocinante.

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

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