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

2. 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 he is being forced to write a second part to satisfy royalty.
(d) That the first part is really enough except for the public demand for more.

3. How does Don Quixote believe he has been enchanted in the night as he guards the inn?
(a) He thinks he sees Dulcinea walking in the moonlight around the inn.
(b) He sees giants walking everywhere in the courtyard of the inn.
(c) He is tricked into being tied by one hand in the barn loft as he stands on the back of Rozinante.
(d) He uses a pitchfork in place of his lance which has been broken to pieces.

4. Which two of Quixote's chivalric heroes inspire him to do a penance in the mountain?
(a) Arthur and Lancelot
(b) Valiant and Gawain
(c) Amadis and Orlando
(d) Peter and Paul

5. What unlikely group of men does Don Quixote set free and enjoin them to go tell Dulcinea of their release?
(a) A group of criminals being taken to the galleys
(b) A group of actors rehearsing for a play
(c) A group of Christians captured by the Moors
(d) A group of soldiers on military training

Short Answer Questions

1. Sancho thinks Quixote's captors are not demons at all. What is Quixote's response to that suggestion?

2. What imaginative tale does Dorothea tell Don Quixote?

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

4. When Don Quixote and Sancho go into the village the next morning, what is their problem?

5. How does Don Quixote receive his knighthood?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the visit of the barber and the curate to Don Quixote after his return home.

3. What is the story of the Princess Micomicona, of the land of Micomicon?

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

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

6. Describe Rocinante.

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

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

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

10. What happens when the Don and Sancho meet an acting troupe still in costume?

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