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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) The fulling mills
(b) The inn where they stayed before
(c) Back in La Mancha
(d) The Sierra Morena mountains

2. What is the giant that Don Quixote attacks in his sleep?
(a) Expensive wineskins filled with wine
(b) The inn's windmill
(c) Pumpkins stacked in a corner
(d) The pillows on his bed

3. What secret does Don Fernando confide to Cardenio?
(a) An illegitimate child by a farmer's daughter
(b) That some girl's father is trying to kill him.
(c) Many sexual experiences with poor girls in his village
(d) An affair with a farmer's daughter he promised to marry

4. What kind of reception does Don Quixote receive from the goatherds?
(a) He is set upon to see if he has money.
(b) The goarherds laugh at him and send him away.
(c) The goatherds fear him because he is mad.
(d) He is welcomed, fed, entertained and medicated.

5. What happens when Dapple is taken by the actors?
(a) Once again, Sancho Panza is forced to walk.
(b) Don Quixote will do nothing because they are common people.
(c) Dapple throws the actor on his back and returns to Sancho Panza.
(d) Dapple falls in love with a horse that is pulling the actors' wagon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the plan to transport Don Quixote back to La Mancha?

2. As Don Quixote and Sancho Panza look for water in the night, what spooks them?

3. Where does Quixote send Sancho Panza on a mission?

4. In the night, Don Quixote attacks what Sancho fears to be twenty or more ghosts. Why is he victorious?

5. How does Quixote blend knight errantry and sainthood?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Teresa Panza show her practical side?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Describe Dorothea's relationship with Don Fernando.

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