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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Don Jaime agree to teach Don Adela?
(a) The sixty fist lunge.
(b) The defensive leap.
(c) The two hundred escudo thrust.
(d) The wall block.

2. How does Jaime anger Adela during the first bout?
(a) Her calls her weak.
(b) He refuses to strike her.
(c) He disarms her.
(d) He doesn't fight well.

3. What has Don Jaime always dreamed of inventing?
(a) The perfect defense.
(b) The strongest sword.
(c) The perfect thrust.
(d) The perfect swipe.

4. What does Dona Adela de Otero want from Don Jaime?
(a) For him to teach her.
(b) Revenge.
(c) For him to fight her ex-lover.
(d) For him to teach her son.

5. Who dies at the end of this section?
(a) Montespan.
(b) Dona Adela.
(c) Don Jaime.
(d) Don Ayra.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religious act does Don Jaime compare fencing to?

2. What does Adela always do when she gets changed?

3. What does the author say the marquis is wheezing like?

4. Who does Adela say taught her to fence?

5. What country did Don Jaime settle down in in 1850?

(see the answer key)

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