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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 Marcela's argument that she is not responsible for the death of Chrysostom?
(a) She knows nothing of Chrysostom's fixation on her.
(b) She has warned Chrysostom to leave her alone and find another girl.
(c) She does not know how a nobleman can waste away for a shepherdess.
(d) Her beauty does not obligate her to love those who love her for it.

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 drum beating in the distance
(d) A metallic clanking and the sound of running water

3. What constantly overcomes Sancho Panza's skepticism about Don Quixote?
(a) The promise of an island to rule
(b) Quixote's balm which can cure anything
(c) Sancho begins to see castles too.
(d) The real things Don Quixote does.

4. Found lying on the ground and severely wounded, where is Don Quixote taken by a neighbor?
(a) To an inn where he thinks he is in a castle.
(b) To his door just as the curate and barber arrive with his niece and housekeeper.
(c) To the village where everyone can see him and make fun of him.
(d) To the local magistrate who will examine Don Quixote's mental ability.

5. What is Don Quixote's explanation for the way the people at the inn toss Sancho into the air from a blanket?
(a) The castle is enchanted.
(b) Sancho allowed it to happen so Don Quixote could escape.
(c) They had fun with Sancho because they could not do that to a knight errant.
(d) Sancho had it coming to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cervantes poke fun at his own mistakes in writing the first part of The Adventures of Don Quixote?

2. During the visit of the curate and the barber, why is there a commotion outside Don Quixote's door?

3. Why is the canon so amazed at Don Quixote's speech?

4. Why does Zoraida attempt to correspond with the Captive Captain?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Don Quixote agree to return to La Mancha?

6. Discuss how Don Quixote always explains away any adverse events or circumstances.

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

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

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

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

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