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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. Who else does Quixote insist he sees inside the cave?
(a) Teresa Panza looking for her husband.
(b) The Knight of the Wood looking for revenge.
(c) Dulcinea still enchanted as a peasant girl.
(d) The priest and the barbers looking for the way out.

2. Where are Quixote and Sancho taken by the ten horsemen?
(a) To the inn that Quixote thinks is a castle
(b) Back to the castle of the Duke and Duchess
(c) To the galleys
(d) To La Mancha

3. How does the fake Merlin tell Sancho Panza that the enchantment of Dulcinea can be broken?
(a) He must dress up like a lady in waiting.
(b) He must ride Dapple into the moat.
(c) He must whip himself 3,300 times on the bare buttocks.
(d) He must steal Don Quixote's brass helmet.

4. On the galley, Don Quixote gets a royal greeting but what happens to Sancho Panza?
(a) He is picked up by the crew and tossed around.
(b) He is forced to be an oarsman.
(c) He is pushed into the sea.
(d) He is tied to the mast.

5. What humiliation awaits Don Quixote at the castle?
(a) A play about a stupid knight errant.
(b) A wedding with Altisidora they try to make him think is Dulcinea.
(c) Sancho finally telling Don Quixote that he will finish his beating.
(d) An elaborate charade that calls for him to submit to pinches and pin pricks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the boat Sancho and Quixote expropriate on the river?

2. How does Quixote continue his tradition of siding with the underdog?

3. In a scheme to poke fun at Don Quixote and Sancho, who makes an appearance?

4. What does Sancho finally have the courage to tell Don Quixote?

5. What is the moral of the story of the braying town going to war with its neighbors?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Don Quixote is finally defeated by another knight who orders him to return to La Mancha.

2. Explain why Sancho is conscience stricken after Don Quixote's return from the cave of Montesinos.

3. What causes Don Quixote and Sancho to leave the young shepherdesses they had promised to champion?

4. Discuss Quixote's last hours.

5. On the way to the wedding of Quiteria the Fair to Camacho the Rich, why does Quixote scold Sancho?

6. Why is Sancho shocked by the message of Death on the huge wagon of white-clad penitents?

7. What happens on the River Ebro?

8. What second encounter with livestock happens to the Don and Sancho before they are arrested by the ten horsemen?

9. In a kind of switch, what is Don Quixote's reaction to Sancho's belief about the ride on the wooden flying horse?

10. What advice does Don Quixote send Sancho in a letter?

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