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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 imaginative tale does Dorothea tell Don Quixote?

2. What shows Sancho Panza's simple mind as he meets up with the barber and the curate at the inn?

3. How does Cervantes plan to see that no further writing is done regarding Don Quixote de La Mancha?

4. Sancho thinks Quixote's captors are not demons at all. What is Quixote's response to that suggestion?

5. Found lying on the ground and severely wounded, where is Don Quixote taken by a neighbor?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Rocinante.

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

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

6. How does Don Quixote agree to return to La Mancha?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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 an essay on windmills.

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