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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 device does Cervantes use to introduce the comedic nature of Don Quixote?
(a) Silly advice from a friend
(b) A gypsy fortune teller
(c) A dream sequence
(d) Talking animals

2. What happens when the barber shows up and recognizes the packsaddle and the basin he lost to Don Quixote?
(a) Don Quixote insists that the basin is the helmet of Mambrino.
(b) Don Quixote is convinced the basin is a basin.
(c) Don Quixote pays the man for the helmet and the packsaddle.
(d) Don Quixote challenges the porr barber to a duel.

3. What makes Sancho Panza drop his demand for a salary?
(a) He thinks about the isle he will one day reign over.
(b) Don Quixote seems ready to accept Sampson as his squire.
(c) The curate promises to pay Sancho to go with him as a protection.
(d) He realizes that Don Quixote is penniless and cannot pay.

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

5. In reality, what are the thirty or forty hulking giants Don Quixote attacks only to get seriously injured again?
(a) Large rocks
(b) Oak trees
(c) Windmills
(d) Haystacks

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Teresa fear for Sancho suddenly becoming rich?

5. How does Don Quixote believe he has been enchanted in the night as he guards the inn?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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