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Study Guide Questions
1. In what year was Miguel de Cervantes born?
2. His father was a(n) __________________________________________________ .
3. At one time, Cervantes had to leave Spain, to avoid being punished for _______________________ .
4. Cervantes enlisted in the _________________________. [ army, marines, air force, navy ]
5. Cervantes lost the use of his ______________ _______________ while battling the Turks.
6. In 1575, Cervantes was taken prisoner by the ________________________________ .
7. He was held captive in ______________________ for _______________________ years.
8. How was his release obtained?
9. Cervantes married at the age of _____________________________________ .
10. Cervantes became an accountant for the ___________________________________ .
11. Why was he was imprisoned in 1597?
12. Part One of Don Quixote was completed in ____________. It contained how many chapters?
13. Part Two of Don Quixote was completed in _______________. It contained how many chapters?
14. Who was Don Quixote's squire?
15. Don Quixote is an affirmation of ___________________________________ .
16. Don Quixote thinks of himself as an idealistic ______________, while Sancho is __________________.
17. Don Quixote has become deluded into thinking he will be rewarded with a(n) ____________________ .
18. What did Don Quixote and Sancho Panza set out to do?
19. With what was Don Quixote equipped?
20. His efforts are usually _____________________, or else, they end in _________________________ .
21. Who is the lady love of Don Quixote?
22. Who is Dulcinea, really?
23. What chivalric ideals does Don Quixote follow in his life?
24. To what does Sancho Panza aspire?
25. Why does Don Quixote's family purge his library?
26. What must Don Quixote's friends and family members finally resort to doing, in order to reach Don Quixote and to bring him back to "reality"?
27. Don Quixote thinks a(n) _____________________________________________ is an army.
28. He thinks windmills are ____________________ .
29. Sancho Panza believes in the parts of the fantasies that promise him ____________________________ and _________________________________________.
30. What happens when Don Quixote frees a group of prisoners?
31. Why is Sancho mocked?
32. Don Quixote mistakes an inn for a(n) _____________________________________ .
33. In Part Two of Don Quixote, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza's relationship has changed in what way?
34. A false Part Two of Don Quixote was published in ________________________ by whom?
35. In Part Two of Don Quixote, many intentional pranks are played on the two adventurers. True or false?
36. After his days as a "knight," Don Quixote becomes a(n) _____________________________ for a year.
37. Is Don Quixote sane or insane when he writes his will?
38. Don Quixote renounces his title and takes back his actual name, _____________________________.
39. We are all capable of doing what?
40. Don Quixote was a(n)______________________________________, trapped in the real world.
41. With ____________________, we can improve the condition of our lives and the lives of others.
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