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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What coincidence does Cervantes use to untangle some of the plot in Chapter 36?

2. Where does Quixote send Sancho Panza on a mission?

3. What is the cause of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza getting a brutal beating from the Yanguesan carriers?

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

5. What is the story of the mule driver with the beautiful voice?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Relate Don Quixote's battle with the giant of Micomicon.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a happy ending to the story of Anselmo and Lothario.

Essay Topic 2

Write an account of Sampson's training to become the Knight of the White Moon.

Essay Topic 3

Write a story about the curate of La Mancha who keeps some of Quixote's books and reads them in private.

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