Don Quixote Book I Quizzes

Don Quixote Book I Quiz 1

By John Burton · Last reviewed January 19, 2003

1 Of what material is Don Quixote's first helmet composed?

Aluminum

Pasteboard

Silver

Bronze
2 Who does Quixote believe will open the drawbridge to the castle?

A sage enchanter

The lord of the castle

A dwarf

The lady of the castle
3 Who does Quixote's niece accuse of carrying away Quixote's library?

The devil

She claims not to know.

Muñaton

Friston
4 At the beginning of the novel, what is the name of Sancho Panza's wife?

Ursula

Juanita

Juana

Teresa
5 After battling the windmills in Chapter 8, what does Don Quixote use for a lance?

An old sword

A tree branch

A shepherd's rod

None of the above.
6 What is the name of Don Quixote's horse?

El Ceballo

Dapple

El Toredo

Rocinante
7 In which position of leadership does Sancho hope to serve?

Governor of an island

Magistrate of a town

General in an army

Master of a guild
8 Who explicitly claims to "destroy the authority" of the books of chivalry?

The priest

Cid Hamet Ben Engeli

Cervantes

Don Quixote
9 Who is described as "honest, poor and shallow-brained"?

Juana Panza

Don Quixote

The housekeeper

Sancho Panza
10 Who describes knights-errant as men similar to monks?

Marcela

Don Vivaldo

Chrysostom

Sancho Panza
11 What does "Chrysostom" mean?

Golden-haired

Golden-blessed

Golden-mouthed

Golden-lipped
12 Who recites a poem entitled "The Song of Despair"?

Don Quixote

Chrysostom

Cardenio

Vivaldo
13 Who gives an impassioned speech arguing: "I was born free"?

Don Quixote

Marcela

"The captive"

Sancho Panza
14 What is the trade of the Yangüesians?

Innkeeping

Goat-herding

Goldsmithing

Horse-breeding
15 Who is the carrier's lover?

Maritornes

Griselda

Alifanfaron

None of the above
16 Who is tossed in a blanket and beaten?

Maritornes

Alifanfaron

Sancho Panza

Don Quixote
17 Why is Don Quixote called "The Knight of the Sorrowful Figure"?

Because he suffers from delusions.

Because he needs a name that will win fame.

Because he has lost his delusions.

Because he has lost his teeth.
18 Who dares to drink "the true balsam of Fierabras"?

Don Quixote

Sancho Panza

Both Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

The goatherds
19 When Don Quixote claims to see Alifanfaron, what does Sancho perceive Alifanfaron to be?

A windmill

A barber's basin

An inn

A lamb
20 In reality, what is the "helmet of Mambrino"?

A piece of pasteboard

An old helmet

A schoolboy's plumed cap

A barber's basin
21 Who is Alonso Lopez?

An innkeeper

A mourner in a procession

A horse-breeder

An enemy of Don Quixote
22 Whose conversations are ironically described as "sage discourse"?

Don Quixote and the sage Friston

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

Don Quixote and an innkeeper

Don Quixote and the sage Muñaton
23 What is the Sierra Morena?

An enchanter

A Moorish graveyard

The hilly interior of Spain

A wooded mountainous region
24 Who greets Don Quixote as if he were an "old friend"?

Sancho Panza

The Ragged Knight of the Sorry Countenance

The Knight of the Green Riding-Suit

Don Fernando
25 Who did Cardenio hope to marry?

Marcela

Dorotea

Lucinda

Lucrezia

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