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From Don Quixote

 

From Don Quixote
Study Guide

1. Why is Don Quixote humorous?


2. How did Don Quixote lose his mind?


3. How does Don Quixote afford his huge reading habit?


4. What do Don Quixote , the priest , and the barber argue about?


5. What is LaMancha?


6. What does Don Quixote think of the name Rocinante?


7. To Don Quixote, a knight without love is like a ________________________.

8. Why is Don Quixote so concerned about the wounds of Don Belianis and who the greatest knight was?


9. React to this quote . ‘The reason of the unreason with which my reason is afflicted so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.”


10. What does Sancho Panza do after Don Quixote jousts with windmills?


11. Who does Don Quixote blame  for his fighting with windmills?


12. After the battle with the windmills, at what contrast between himself and Sanco does Quixote laugh?
Self-Test
from Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

1. How do books about chivalry affect Don Quixote's mind?
They fill his mind with delusions about himself.
They make him concerned for his welfare.
They make him angry and violent

2. What unusual decision does Don Quixote make as a result of his reading?
He decides to burn his library.
He decides to become a knight-errant.
He decides to become an author of books on chivalry.

3. Why does Don Quixote use special names for people and things?
In naming them, he feels like their creator.
He mocks them.
He inflates their status.

4. What causes Don Quixote to see the windmills as giant monsters?
He has a rare eye condition.
He penetrates beneath surface appearances.
He suffers from delusions, and his need to perform a chivalrous act is great.

5. Why is Sancho Panza a particularly helpful squire to Don Quixote?
He keeps Don Quixote away from all conflicts.
He is efficient and obedient.
Seeing things as they are, he keeps his master from danger.

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