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

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

3. How does Cervantes poke fun at his own mistakes in writing the first part of The Adventures of Don Quixote?

4. In reality, what are the thirty or forty hulking giants Don Quixote attacks only to get seriously injured again?

5. What argument does the niece use to try and get her uncle to stay home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Rocinante.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a story that is a conversation between Rocinante and Dapple.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about what you would have been in the days of knights errant.

Essay Topic 3

Write a story that includes a long conversation between the housekeeper and the niece.

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