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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 does the imagery of the Golden Age represent to Don Quixote?
(a) The times when uses of metal were discovered.
(b) The days when literature was at its peak.
(c) A time when there was money for everyone.
(d) A simpler, more peaceful time in the age of chivalry.

2. When Sancho tells his wife, Teresa, that he is going again with Don Quixote, what advice does Teresa give?
(a) That he should break his leg and get out of going with the madman.
(b) To remain in his own station and not think of governorships.
(c) That this time he will surely die.
(d) That he must come home with another 100 crowns or not come home at all.

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

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

5. The niece, the housekeeper, the curate and the barber all agree on what as the cause of Don Quixote's madness?
(a) The cheap wine he has been drinking
(b) His extreme old age
(c) His vast collection of books
(d) His poor diet

Short Answer Questions

1. In yet another coincidence, what happens when a learned judge arrives at the inn with his beautiful daughter?

2. What are four horsemen looking for at the inn?

3. How does Don Quixote get around paying a monthly wage to Sancho Panza?

4. These early adventures of Don Quixote establish what theme that runs throughout the novel?

5. What secret does Sancho Panza overhear and tell to Don Quixote?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Teresa Panza show her practical side?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the significance of the Knight of the Wood?

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