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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 get around paying a monthly wage to Sancho Panza?

2. Why does Sancho Panza doubt that the enchanted demons are real?

3. As Don Quixote and Sancho Panza look for water in the night, what spooks them?

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

5. In the night, Don Quixote attacks what Sancho fears to be twenty or more ghosts. Why is he victorious?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Describe Rocinante.

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

Essay Topic 3

Write a letter to Teresa Panza telling her about seeing Sancho at an inn.

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