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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. As Dorothea tells her story, what does Cardenio suddenly realize?
(a) That she is more beautiful than Lucinda.
(b) That she can lead him to Lucinda.
(c) That he cannot remember Lucinda's face.
(d) That she is the farmer's daughter Don Fernando promises to marry.

2. What characteristic do Quixote and the innkeeper share as observed by Dorothea and Cardenio?
(a) They are both fond of money and use tricks to get it.
(b) They both love the books of chivalry and believe them to be true.
(c) They both love fighting with uneducated people.
(d) They are about the same age, height, and build.

3. How do they manage to escape the Moorish land and take Zoraida with them?
(a) They are freed in a raid by spanish troops.
(b) They manage to rob the cruel Moor who is their master.
(c) She gives them enough money to ransom themselves and buy a boat.
(d) Zoraida's father learns of her desire to go to a Christian country and helps them.

4. What common object becomes the means of correspondence with the Captive Captain?
(a) A bottle
(b) A teapot
(c) A pillowcase
(d) A cane

5. Who judges the basin to be a helmet, though incomplete?
(a) The barber from La Mancha
(b) Dorothea
(c) The innkeeper
(d) The curate

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Don Quixote interpret the penitents and their effigy of the Virgin?

3. What unlikely group of men does Don Quixote set free and enjoin them to go tell Dulcinea of their release?

4. When Sancho tells his wife, Teresa, that he is going again with Don Quixote, what advice does Teresa give?

5. What happens to Camilla, Anselmo, and Lothario at the end of the tale within the tale?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Teresa Panza show her practical side?

7. Describe the story of the Captive Captain.

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

9. Describe Rocinante.

10. What is Sancho's comic rationale for believing Don Quixote is not in an enchanted cage at all?

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