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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 do the curate and the barber plan to get Quixote to return with them to La Mancha?

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

3. How does Sancho trick Don Quixote into waiting until morning to investigate the clanking sound?

4. What does the innkeeper use as a holy book of heraldry in the knighthood ceremony?

5. How does Quixote blend knight errantry and sainthood?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the story of the Captive Captain.

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

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

5. Discuss Don Quixote's illusions that cause him to do battle with strange things.

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

7. How does the student Sampson enter into Don Quixote's life?

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

9. What happens when the Don and Sancho meet an acting troupe still in costume?

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

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 a story where the Duke and Duchess set up a trick on Sancho that backfires on them.

Essay Topic 3

Write a story about Gines de Pasamonte's committing a great robbery and going back to the galleys.

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