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The First Part, The Author's Dedication of the First Part–Chapter IV

The First Part, Chapters V–X

The First Part, Chapters XI–XV

The First Part, Chapters XVI–XX

The First Part, Chapters XXI-XXVI

The First Part, Chapters XXVII–XXXI

The First Part, Chapters XXXII–XXXVII

The First Part, Chapters XXXVIII–XLV

The First Part, Chapters XLVI–LII

The Second Part, The Author's Dedication of the Second Part–Chapter VII

The Second Part, Chapters VIII–XV

The Second Part, Chapters XVI–XXI

The Second Part, Chapters XXII–XXVIII

The Second Part, Chapters XXIX–XXXV

The Second Part, Chapters XXXVI–XLI

The Second Part, Chapters XLII–XLVI

The Second Part, Chapter XLVII-LIII

The Second Part, Chapters LIV–LX

The Second Part, Chapters LXI–LXVI

The Second Part, Chapters LXVII–LXXIV

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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

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1. Who is the Knight of the White Moon?

(A) The Duke

(B) Cardenio

(D) Sancho Panza

2. How many expeditions does Don Quixote make without Sancho Panza?

(A) None

(B) One

(D) Three

3. Why does Don Quixote return home in a cage after his second expedition?

(A) Because he believes he is enchanted and cannot get out

(B) Because Benengeli has vanquished him

(D) Because he wants to

4. Who is Master Peter, the puppeteer?

(A) Don Quixote

(B) Ferdinand

(D) Gines de Pasamonte

5. Where does Don Quixote meet the enchanted Dulcinea for the second time, after meeting her once on the road to El Toboso?

(A) The Duke's house

(B) Barcelona

(D) In Montesinos's Cave

6. How does the Duchess know who Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are?

(A) From reading about them in the First Part of the novel

(B) From her servants, whom they conquered on the road

(D) From the Countess Trifaldi

7. Why does Don Quixote do penance in the Sierra Morena?

(A) Because he is insane

(B) Because he lied to Dulcinea

(D) Because of his guilt over stealing Mambrino's helmet from the barber

8. What does Anselmo ask his best friend, Lothario, to do for him?

(A) Take care of Anselmo's ailing sister

(B) Seduce Anselmo's wife

(D) Take Anselmo's wife to a nunnery

9. When he sees them, what does Don Quixote think the fulling mills are?

(A) Windmills

(B) Giants

(D) Fulling mills

10. Who is Cide Hamete Benengeli?

(A) Don Quixote's grandfather

(B) The captive's Moorish captor

(D) The author, according to Cervantes, of the manuscript from which Cervantes translates Don Quixote

11. What does the Duke give Sancho Panza?

(A) A horse

(B) An “isle”

(D) A whipping

12. How, according to Merlin, can Dulcinea be released from her enchantment?

(A) If Sancho gives himself 3,300 lashes with a whip on his bare

(B) bottomIf she touches Don Quixote

(D) If she drinks the Balsam of Fierbras

13. Why do the officers of the Holy Brotherhood want to arrest Don Quixote?

(A) For knocking over the windmills

(B) For beating up the penitents

(D) For releasing the galley slaves

14. Who is Cardenio?

(A) The crazy naked man in the Sierra Morena

(B) Lucinda's lover

(D) All of the above

15. What does Countess Trifaldi have that she does not want?

(A) Money

(B) 100 suito

(D) A beard

16. Who pretends to be Princess Micomicona?

(A) Lucinda

(B) Dorothea

(D) The Duke's steward

17. How does Sancho prove that Don Quixote is not actually enchanted in the cage?

(A) By asking him if he needs to go to the bathroom

(B) By showing that his armor is undamaged

(D) By breaking the cage

18. Who wrote the false Second Part of Don Quixote, in which Don Alvaro brings Don Quixote to be cured?

(A) Cervantes

(B) Avellaneda

(D) Sancho

19. How does Don Quixote die?

(A) The Balsam of Fierbras poisons him

(B) The Knight of the White Moon kills him

(D) He falls ill

20. Why does Sancho whip the trees?

(A) Because he wants to save Dulcinea

(B) Because he hates forests

(D) Because he is jealous of Don Quixote's romantic success with the innkeeper's daughter

21. Why does Cervantes end the First Part?

(A) He runs out of paper

(B) Sancho dies

(D) He does not know the rest of the story

22. Why does Sancho not take Don Quixote to Dulcinea's house at the beginning of the Second Part?

(A) He does not know where Dulcinea lives

(B) He does not want to bother Dulcinea at night

(D) He is tired and wants to go to an inn

23. When during the novel does Don Quixote see Dulcinea for the first time?

(A) When Sancho brings her to him in the Sierra Morena

(B) When he goes to El Toboso

(D) He never sees her during the course of the novel

24. What does Don Quixote decide to do during his retirement?

(A) Hunt

(B) Fish

(D) Read

25. Why does Don Quixote sing to Altisidora?

(A) To prove that he loves her

(B) Because the Duchess has asked him to

(D) Because she is afraid of him

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