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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 30mins

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Class
Date
1.

The main character in Don Quixote goes mad (out of his mind) because of

a)

books

b)

love

c)

magic

d)

medicine

2.

Which character in Don Quixote is Don Quixote's enemy?

a)

his niece

b)

his squire

c)

a magician

d)

the housekeeper

3.

Don Quixote hopes to

a)

govern La Mancha

b)

train with Sancho Panza

c)

read more books

d)

right all wrongs

4.

Don Quixote battles

a)

criminals

b)

windmills

c)

knights

d)

Sancho Panza

5.

In the parody, Miguel de Cervantes creates a comic imitation of

a)

chivalry heroes and battles

b)

poor people in prison

c)

life in rural Spanish towns

d)

songs from musical plays

6.

The main character in Don Quixote is convinced that he is a

a)

master magician

b)

Spanish priest

c)

foreign prince

d)

heroic knight

7.

Don Quixote hears that an angry magician

a)

killed Don Quixote's horse

b)

stole Don Quixote's library

c)

burned down Don Quixote's barn

d)

harmed Don Quixote's squire

8.

What does fictitious mean?

a)

courageous in battle

b)

fascinating to look at

c)

created by the imagination

d)

dedicated to your work

9.

What does affable mean?

a)

warm and friendly

b)

overconfident and proud

c)

generous and charitable

d)

dazed and confused

10.

The gentleman "Quijada or Quesada but really Quejana" is NOT

a)

a madman after becoming so immersed in reading with little sleep

b)

a well-respected knight well-known in La Mancha

c)

desired to find a name (such as Don Quixote) that pleased his fancy

d)

close to fifty with little flesh on his bones and a face that is lean and gaunt

11.

Don Quixote convinces the farmer who visits him every day

a)

to help him escape from his family's care.

b)

that everyone supports his quest for adventure.

c)

that Dulcinea is waiting for their help.

d)

to become his squire.

12.

In Part 1, Chapter 1, Quejana decides to

a)

become a knight-errand

b)

become a night-king

c)

become a knight-errant

d)

give up reading and write a story instead

13.

In Part 1, Chapter 1, before he can set off on his quest, Quejana must


(Click all that apply)

a)

find a nag (horse)

b)

find a suit of armor

c)

find a squire

d)

find a woman he can love

e)

be dubbed a knight

14.

In Part I, the narrator seems ____________ the gentleman.

a)

to admire

b)

disinterested in

c)

to resent

d)

to underestimate