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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. During the visit of the curate and the barber, why is there a commotion outside Don Quixote's door?
(a) The women are trying to prevent Sancho Panza from entering.
(b) Don Quixote's horse has come into the house.
(c) The village people have come, uspet about the latest book.
(d) The innkeeper has come to try and collect his money.

2. What is the story of the mule driver with the beautiful voice?
(a) He is a poor poy who is pining away for love of clara.
(b) He is the son of a wealthy man who is in love with the judge's daughter.
(c) He is a prince who has fallen in love with a commoner.
(d) He is one of the escaped criminals the king is looking for.

3. How does Sancho trick Don Quixote into waiting until morning to investigate the clanking sound?
(a) He ties Rocinante's back legs together.
(b) He points Rocinante in the wrong direction.
(c) He puts a sleeping powder into Don Quixote's wine.
(d) He loosens Quixote's saddles so it falls off.

4. Why does Lothario think Camilla is being unvirtuous?
(a) He hears that a number of men have been visiting her at home.
(b) He sees her maid's lover leaving the house early one morning.
(c) He notices that Camilla goes out every afternoon when Anselmo is away.
(d) He thinks she is beginning to respond to him and the poems he writes for her.

5. How does Dorothea get Don Quixote to leave the mountain and travel with her, the curate, the barber, Sancho and Cardenio?
(a) By promising to marry him if he gets her home safely.
(b) By pretending to be a Queen driven from her country by evil giants.
(c) By pretending to be the sister of the Lady Dulcinea.
(d) By reading aloud from a book of chivalry each night.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who are the surprise visitors to the group?

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

4. How does Sancho Panza regain Dapple?

5. Why does Sancho Panza doubt that the enchanted demons are real?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Outline the story of what Anselmo wants Lothario to do.

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

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

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

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

9. Discuss Don Quixote's illusions that cause him to do battle with strange things.

10. Describe the story of the Captive Captain.

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