View a FREE sample

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 Diego save Juan from imprisonment?

2. How does Juan describe Don Diego's funeral?

3. What does Paquita ask Juan to send to her secret lover?

4. What does Juan do when the King realizes Juan has done a painting?

5. What is the name of the apprentice in love with Paquita?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lolis feel about being a slave?

2. What does Diego say during one of the King's sittings that pleases the King?

3. What honor does the King give Don Diego after he dies?

4. Where does Don Diego send most of his apprentices, and why?

5. What is Juan worried will be found while he is in Northern Spain with Don Diego, and what is done about this?

6. What does the King ask Juan to do before he leaves to Seville with Lolis?

7. What does Paquita's mother do when she finds out about her daughter's relationship?

8. What has Juan just painted when he talks to Bartolomy, and what does Bartolomy say about this?

9. What does Don Diego tell Juan not to call him after he is freed, and what is Juan's response?

10. What does the King do after Juan helps his favorite dog, and how does Juan feel about this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Personal identity was one of the main themes in this book. Where did this theme appear, and how did its inclusion in the novel shape the course of the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Despair was a theme that was placed in a number of sensitive places in this plot. What are some of these places, and what role did despair play in this book?

Essay Topic 3

What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 794 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample