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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 happens when Dapple is taken by the actors?

2. What is the gist of the goatherd's tale?

3. What do the curate and the barber try to avoid when they go to visit Quixote at home?

4. What is Sancho's plan to deceive Don Quixote about the Lady Dulcinea?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe how Cervantes presents Sancho as one motivated by money.

6. Describe the story of the Captive Captain.

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

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

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

10. How do many people abuse Don Quixote's madness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on kindness to handicapped people.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on what Don Quixote considers the Godlen Age.

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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