Test on Cervantes' Don Quixote (NAWME-1V)

1. Cervantes' Don Quixote is an example of the national language and literature of: (a) England (b) France (c) Spain (d) Italy

2. Cervantes' Don Quixote was published in: (a) 1405 and 1415 (b) 1505 and 1515 (c) 1605 and 1615 (d) 1705 and 1715

3. According to Pasinetti's introduction in the NAWME, the genre of Don Quixote is: (a) allegory (b) a mingling of parody and romance (c) a combined nonfiction travelogue and novel (d) pure caricature

4. According to Pasinetti's introduction, Cervantes' attitude toward chivalry in Don Quixote is: (a) admiring and hopeful (b) critical and bitter (c) positive and negative (d) neutral and impartial

5. As pointed out in class lecture, both in theme and technique Cervantes' Don Quixote most resembles which one of the following paintings? (a) Durer's Knight, Death and the Devil (b) Ribera's The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew (c) Velasquez's The Maids of Honor (d) El Greco's View of Toledo

6. As pointed out in class lecture, Cervantes' Don Quixote has turned up in all the popular art forms except which one: (a) feature films (b) Broadway musical (c) television series (d) rock music

7. As played in class, the musical composition in classical or art music influenced by Spain and specifically Cervantes' Don Quixote is manifested in an important work of what composer of classical or art music: (a) Franz Liszt (b) Franz Schubert (c) Robert Schumann (d) Gustav Mahler (e) Richard Strauss

8. The particular musical form of the work referred to in the immediately preceding question is: (a) concerto (b) fugue (c) madrigal (d) tone poem

9. In I.i (that is, Part I, chapter 1) of the book, the description (in paragraph 1) of Senor Quijana's meals during the week is used to suggest Don Quixote's: (a) building up the strength that he shows in his adventures (b) madness being derived from malnutrition (c) desire to escape routine (d) charitable nature, embodied by his food donations to his neighbor

10. In I.ii of the book (when Don Quixote sets off on his adventures), the combination of Don Quixote's description of the sunrise and Cervantes' following description of it suggests: (a) Cervantes' mock epic satire (b) Don Quixote's sunny disposition (c) Cervantes' Renaissance interest in astronomy and science (d) the similarity in Don Quixote's and Cervantes' attitudes and values

11. In I.iii of the book (DQ at the inn), when DQ beats the mule drivers the reader's sympathy is directed to Don Quixote because he: (a) is so very insane (b) hasn't done any physical injury to the drivers (c) is a much higher social class than they are (d) has been treated by them without humanity, as if he wasn't there

12. In I.iii, in par. 24 especially, in the relationship between DQ and the two prostitutes, what is suggested about language and imagination (through DQ's language and imagination) by the behavior of the women is their (language's & imagination's) ability to: (a) mislead from truth (b) seduce to fornication (c) transform to real (d) gain money or power

13. In I.iv (DQ and the farmer & servant; DQ with the merchants), in the argument between the farmer and DQ about the treatment of the farmer's young servant, DQ shows himself: (a) surprisingly shrewd (b) appallingly humble (c) thoughtlessly violent (d) anachronistically Socialist

14. In I.iv, the underlying thematic connection between the two apparently disparate adventures of DQ that are described at length in the chapter are the criticisms of all the following except which one: (a) money orientation (b) lack of compassion and sympathy (c) overvaluing the physical and devaluing the metaphysical or spiritual (d) smug and intolerant religiosity

15. In I.v (DQ returned home after being beaten), DQ's reply to Pedro's query "cannot your Grace see that I am not Don Rodrigo de Narvaez . . . but Pedro Alonso, your neighbor?" (par. 8) brings up in a "signature passage" the issue relevant to every modern college student and busy urbanite in any developed country, especially the U.S., of: (a) dependence on technology (b) alienation from neighbors (c) multiple roles (d) anomie

16. In I.v (DQ returned home after being beaten), when the Curate says to DQ's neice that he will hold an auto da fe of Don Quixote's books, the principal motif suggested is that of: (a) education (b) religion (c) narcissism (d) mobility

17. In I.vii of the book (DQ sets out with Sancho), which initiates the motif of promises of Sancho's governorship, one of the novel's ironies is that: (a) Sancho can't control his own wife (b) Cervantes himself was a governor in South America (c) DQ so frequently breaks his word (d) in Part II the fantasy will become a reality

18. In I.viii of the book (DQ attacks the windmills), the windmills that DQ attacks symbolize all the following except which one? (a) shallow religion or Christianity (b) emphasis on the material world (c) commercialism (d) routine

19. I.viii of this novel contributed a proverbial expression in English that contains what key word: (a) frying (b) milling (c) putting (d) tilting

20. In I.xxii (DQ's and Sancho's meeting with the convicts in chains), one way a parallel is suggested between DQ and the convicts is through the latters': (a) devotion to their women (b) harmful education in the wrong books (c) euphemistic language (d) love of the sea

21. In I.xxii, one serious subject generally implied is the: (a) transformation of ardent romantic love into bitter hatred (b) power of idealism to convert criminals into good citizens (c) rampant injustice of most legal systems (d) conflict between the individual and the state

22. In I.lii (DQ's adventures just before being returned home again), describing DQ's behavior toward the procession of religious penitents and priests bearing the covered image of the Virgin Mary, Cervantes once again implies about chivalry and knight errantry their: (a) essential irreligious physical violence (b) harmony with the Church (as in the Crusades) (c) easy ability to be manipulated by Church officials (d) fundamental ideal and goal of repentance

23. In II.iii (DQ, Sancho, and Samson Carrasco discuss the reception of Part I of Don Quixote), one academic field of study comically prominent in the discussion of the characters is: (a) biology (b) esthetics (c) archeology (d) physics

24. In II.iii, Homer's Odyssey and Vergil's Aeneid are discussed primarily in terms of the conflict between: (a) good and evil (b) Greece and Rome (c) realism and idealism (d) ancient and modern

25. In II.xii-xv (DQ's encounter with the Knight of the Mirrors), an odd, repeated motif suggesting the theme of the world's intrusion on DQ, as well as the theme of perception, is that of: (a) sunlight (b) noses (c) lances (d) glass

26. In II.xii-xv, the disguise adopted by Samson to defeat DQ symbolizes all of the following except which one? (a) magic or deception (b) Samson's genuine self-knowledge, as demonstrated by his behavior following the joust (c) DQ's partial ignorance of his own identity (d) Samson as doppelganger or double of DQ (e) the Manchegan plan, paralleling the Book of Proverbs, of answering a fool according to his folly

27. As described in II.xiv (particularly par. 40, "While Don Quixote tarried to see Sancho ensconced in the cork tree . . . "), DQ's opponent apparently loses the fight primarily because of: (a) magic (b) rashness (c) compassion (d) timidity

28. In the specifics of the immediately preceding question, including par. 40, occurs an inversion of an interestingly similar incident with DQ and Rocinante in: (a) I.iv (b) I.xvii (c) I.xxii (d) I.lii

29. In II.xvi (DQ's encounter with Don Diego de Miranda, the sage in the green greatcoat), one of the important literary themes touched on is: (a) death (b) destiny vs. free will (c) the battle of the sexes (d) parents and children

30. In II.xvii (DQ's encounter with lions in cages on carts, and subsequent discussion of it with Don Diego), all of the following are suggested except which one: (a) Don Quixote's affinity with Three Stooges slapstick (a cottage-cheese filled helmet) (b) the true need for valor in the modern world (c) the cruelty of humanity towards the animal kingdom (d) the long-range meaning of an incident sometimes being different from its anticipated initial results

31. In II.lxiv (DQ's encounter with the Knight of the White Moon), the symbolism of DQ's antagonist is all of the following except which one: (a) DQ's madness (b) the questionable rationality of the sane world (c) DQ's imagination, chastity, and purity (d) the long life awaiting DQ when he is cured of his madness

32. In II.lxv (explanations by the Knight of the White Moon to Don Antonio and others about the plan to return DQ home), the reactions of Don Antonio to Carrasco's implementation of the plan to return DQ home shows about the real, sane world its: (a) empathy (b) selfishness (c) money-mindedness (d) chivalry

33. The main plot event with which the novel ends in II.lxxiv suggests the theme of: (a) the necessity of dreams and illusions (b) the triumph of family love over disaster (c) the importance of classical literature (d) the waste from war and battle

34. In II.lxxiv, Sancho and Carrasco in their attempt to cure DQ: (a) rely on Catholic ritual (b) introduce DQ to a new girlfriend (c) themselves turn fantasists (d) devote themselves to the new scientific inquiries important in the Renaissance (e) buy a certificate for DQ to the La Mancha Osaka Spa