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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. How do the curate and the barber plan to get Quixote to return with them to La Mancha?
(a) They plan to tie him up in his sleep.
(b) They make him believe that the giants have invaded La Mancha.
(c) They change all the road signs along the way.
(d) They send a false message saying Dulcinea bids Quixote to come to her immediately.

2. Who has dinner with Don Quixote after Sancho Panza goes home?
(a) His housekeeper and his niece
(b) The mischevious student Sampson
(c) The barber and the priest
(d) The mayor of La Mancha

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

4. Who comes to inform Don Quixote of the book that has been written about him?
(a) The mayor of La Mancha
(b) The mischevious student Sampson
(c) The canon
(d) Juana Panza

5. What is the canon's opinion of the chivalric tales?
(a) He says that he has never read one of them.
(b) He hopes they will restore chivalry to the world.
(c) He says that the so-called books of chivalry are most harmful to the commonwealth.
(d) He thinks they should be read by all educated people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the challenge to knight errantry presented to Don Quixote by Vivaldo?

2. What is the surprise after Don Quixote defeats the Knight of the Wood?

3. What imaginative tale does Dorothea tell Don Quixote?

4. How do they manage to escape the Moorish land and take Zoraida with them?

5. What characteristic do Quixote and the innkeeper share as observed by Dorothea and Cardenio?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the story of the Captive Captain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How is the character of Don Quixote enlarged and filled out by Cervantes?

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

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

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