Don Quixote - Quiz
Don Quixote
  • 1. Who translated the first part of Don Quixote in 1612?
A) John Phillips
B) Charles Jervas
C) John Ormsby
D) Thomas Shelton
  • 2. Which translator was the nephew of John Milton?
A) Pierre Antoine Motteux
B) Thomas Shelton
C) John Phillips
D) Tobias Smollett
  • 3. In what year was Charles Jervas's translation published?
A) 1719
B) 1755
C) 1700
D) 1742
  • 4. Which version is recommended by the text for its careful notes?
A) Edith Grossman
B) John Ormsby
C) Robinson Smith
D) Samuel Putnam
  • 5. Who wrote a spurious sequel to Don Quixote?
A) Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda
B) Tirant lo Blanch
C) Amadís de Gaula
D) Feliciano de Silva
  • 6. Which book is mentioned as one of the chivalric novels in Don Quixote's library?
A) Amadís de Gaula
B) The Life & Notable Adventures
C) Hudibrastic Verse
D) The reason of the unreason
  • 7. Who edited the 1822 version of Pierre Antoine Motteux's translation?
A) John Wilson Clark
B) John Ozell
C) James Young Gibson
D) John Gibson Lockhart
  • 8. Which translation was published in 2003 by Edith Grossman?
A) Walter Starkie
B) O. M. Brack Jr.
C) Edith Grossman
D) J. M. Cohen
  • 9. According to Daniel Eisenberg, which translation is preferred alongside Putnam's?
A) Thomas Shelton
B) Burton Raffel
C) Tobias Smollett
D) Douglas and Jones
  • 10. Which author wrote books for their lucidity of style and complicated conceits?
A) Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda
B) Feliciano de Silva
C) George Kelly
D) John Phillips
  • 11. Which translation was revised by O. M. Brack Jr. in 2003?
A) Tobias Smollett
B) Thomas Shelton
C) Charles Henry Wilmot
D) Robinson Smith
  • 12. Who translated Don Quixote into Hudibrastic Verse?
A) George Kelly
B) Edward Ward
C) Mary Smirke
D) John Blunt
  • 13. Which edition is a revision of Ormsby and represents a Norton Critical Edition?
A) Joseph Ramon Jones and Kenneth Douglas
B) Burton Raffel
C) Diana de Armas Wilson
D) Samuel Putnam
  • 14. In what year was the translation by Samuel Putnam published?
A) 1949
B) 1950
C) 1996
D) 1964
  • 15. Who revised the translation by Charles Jervas in 2008?
A) John Blunt
B) Tobias Smollett
C) John Wilson Clark
D) E.C. Riley
  • 16. Which story in Don Quixote, Part One is considered the longest and best known?
A) El Curioso Impertinente
B) The Tale of the Captive
C) The Princess of Micomicon
D) The Knight of the Mirrors
  • 17. What is the primary motivation of Anselmo in 'The Ill-Advised Curiosity'?
A) To find a new wife
B) To test the fidelity of his wife
C) To gain fame as a nobleman
D) To settle a debt with Lothario
  • 18. How does Lothario respond to Anselmo's initial request to seduce Camilla?
A) He is eager to pursue her
B) He refuses immediately
C) He reluctantly agrees while thinking it is madness
D) He tells Camilla about the plan immediately
  • 19. What happens when Lothario actually attempts to seduce Camilla?
A) Camilla writes letters to her husband about the attempts
B) Camilla leaves town to avoid him
C) Camilla tells the maid to report him
D) Camilla immediately agrees to the affair
  • 20. How does Camilla finally convince Anselmo of her fidelity during his observation?
A) She stabs herself lightly in the breast
B) She faints at the sight of Lothario
C) She begs for her husband's forgiveness
D) She produces a fake letter from a lover
  • 21. What is the eventual fate of Anselmo?
A) He reconciles with his wife
B) He kills Lothario in a duel
C) He dies of grief before finishing his story
D) He lives in poverty after his wife leaves
  • 22. What change occurs in Part Two regarding the author's narrative approach?
A) He promises to concentrate on the central characters
B) He changes the protagonist to Sancho
C) He includes more digressions than in Part One
D) He stops writing the story entirely
  • 23. What does the Spanish suffix '-ote' denote?
A) An augmentative, implying extra large
B) A diminutive, implying something small
C) A formal title for nobility
D) A suffix reserved for historical figures
  • 24. What is the literal meaning of 'quixote' as a military term?
A) Cuisses, which protect the thighs
B) A type of helmet for knights
C) A decorative sash for armor
D) A specific type of medieval sword
  • 25. Why does Don Quixote speak in Old Castilian?
A) To mimic the language of his chivalric books
B) To mock the local peasants
C) Because he is actually from the medieval period
D) Because he cannot understand modern Spanish
  • 26. How was the name 'Quixote' originally pronounced in Old Castilian?
A) With a soft 'z' sound
B) With a silent 'x'
C) With a 'sh' sound
D) With a hard 'k' sound
  • 27. What does the adjective 'quixotic' mean according to Merriam-Webster?
A) The tendency to speak in archaic languages
B) The foolishly impractical pursuit of ideals
C) A deep and unwavering obsession with horses
D) A brave and noble act of chivalry
  • 28. What does the name 'Dulcinea' represent in the novel?
A) An allusion to illusion
B) A pun on the word for bread
C) A real historical figure
D) The name of a famous queen
  • 29. Why is the humor in Don Quixote's language difficult for modern readers to see?
A) The language has been translated into too many dialects
B) Modern readers are not familiar with the plot
C) The text was originally written in Latin
D) It requires distinguishing between two types of old Spanish
  • 30. What is the ultimate fate of Lothario?
A) He is imprisoned for his betrayal
B) He is killed in battle
C) He becomes a hermit
D) He marries the maid
  • 31. How many years after the original novel was Part Two of Don Quixote published?
A) Twenty years
B) Ten years
C) Five years
D) Two years
  • 32. What literary technique is used in Part Two where characters have read the first part of the novel?
A) Allegory
B) Satire
C) Metafiction
D) Stream of consciousness
  • 33. Who sent Sancho to meet Dulcinea as a go-between?
A) Don Quixote
B) The Duchess
C) The Duke
D) The Knight of the White Moon
  • 34. How many peasant girls does Sancho encounter on the road?
A) Four
B) Three
C) One
D) Two
  • 35. How many lashes must Sancho give himself to release Dulcinea from her spell?
A) Five hundred
B) One thousand
C) Three thousand three hundred
D) Ten thousand
  • 36. What is the condition imposed on Quixote after he is defeated by the Knight of the White Moon?
A) Leave the country
B) Cease chivalry for one year
C) Pay a large fine
D) Become a monk
  • 37. What occupation does Quixote suggest upon returning to his village?
A) Farmer
B) Knight
C) Shepherd
D) Teacher
  • 38. In what year was the first part of Don Quixote published?
A) 1605
B) 1615
C) 1926
D) 1844
  • 39. What is the occupation of Sancho Panza?
A) Slaughterhouse worker
B) Knight-errant
C) Innkeeper
D) Farm labourer
  • 40. What is the name of Don Quixote's horse?
A) Rocinante
B) Dulcinea
C) La Mancha
D) Benengeli
  • 41. Whom does Don Quixote rename Dulcinea del Toboso?
A) His niece
B) A prostitute at the inn
C) The housekeeper
D) Aldonza Lorenzo
  • 42. Where does Don Quixote hold his vigil as a knight?
A) At a horse trough
B) At the slaughterhouse
C) In a cathedral
D) In a library
  • 43. Who supposedly translated the story of Don Quixote from an Arabic text?
A) Salvador de Madariaga
B) Miguel de Cervantes
C) Alonso Quijano
D) Cide Hamete Benengeli
  • 44. What is the meaning of the word 'quixotic'?
A) Earthy and witty
B) Impractically idealistic
C) Frugal and wise
D) Violently insane
  • 45. According to the text, how many parts was the 1605 book internally divided into?
A) Six
B) Two
C) Four
D) One
  • 46. What does Don Quixote promise Sancho Panza to convince him to become his squire?
A) A petty governorship
B) A suit of golden armor
C) A large chest of gold coins
D) A castle in the countryside
  • 47. What does Don Quixote mistake the windmills for?
A) Enchanted castles
B) Evil sorcerers
C) Ferocious giants
D) Army battalions
  • 48. Who does Don Quixote believe is holding the lady in the carriage captive?
A) Benedictine friars
B) Galician porters
C) An army of giants
D) A group of galley slaves
  • 49. What is the name of the innkeeper where Don Quixote and Sancho stay?
A) Sancho Panza
B) Cardenio
C) Juan Palomeque
D) The Toledo canon
  • 50. What object does Don Quixote mistake for the helmet of Mambrino?
A) A metal cooking pot
B) A barber's basin
C) A rusted shield
D) A farmer's bucket
  • 51. Where do Quixote and Sancho wander after encountering the galley slaves?
A) The village of the priest
B) The plains of the windmills
C) The Sierra Morena
D) The kingdom of Micomicona
  • 52. Who poses as the Princess Micomicona to trick Don Quixote?
A) A girl from the village
B) A servant girl
C) Dorotea
D) The lady in the carriage
  • 53. What does Quixote fight while sleepwalking at the inn?
A) The Toledo canon
B) A group of pilgrims
C) Wineskins
D) The innkeeper's servants
  • 54. With whom does Don Quixote have a learned conversation on the road?
A) A group of goatherds
B) A Toledo canon
C) The local barber
D) The village priest
  • 55. According to Harold Bloom, what is Don Quixote considered to be?
A) A factual historical biography
B) A collection of short folk tales
C) The first modern novel
D) A medieval epic poem
  • 56. What does Harold Bloom say Don Quixote is at war with?
A) The author's own narrator
B) The Spanish Inquisition
C) Freud's reality principle
D) The medieval chivalric code
  • 57. How does Cervantes ensure the reader never rests, according to Grossman?
A) By using footnotes that explain the plot
B) By constantly shifting the point of view to a new character
C) By writing in a complex, archaic language
D) By introducing contradictions that undermine previous premises
  • 58. The structure of the novel is described as what?
A) A play in five acts
B) A single continuous narrative
C) Episodic
D) A collection of sonnets
  • 59. What does the phrase 'tilting at windmills' mean?
A) Traveling across the country
B) Fighting against a corrupt government
C) Attacking imaginary enemies
D) Building a farm in the countryside
  • 60. Where was the spurious second part of Don Quixote published?
A) Madrid
B) Tarragona
C) Toledo
D) Barcelona
  • 61. In what year was the English translation of Avellaneda's second part by William Augustus Yardley published?
A) 1714
B) 1615
C) 1784
D) 1614
  • 62. Who described Avellaneda's version as 'one of the most disgraceful performances in history'?
A) Cervantes
B) Alonso Fernández
C) Don Quixote
D) Samuel Putnam
  • 63. In which chapter of Cervantes' Part Two does Don Quixote encounter the spurious book?
A) Chapter 59
B) Chapter 1
C) Chapter 74
D) Chapter 10
  • 64. Where does Don Quixote visit a printing-house in Cervantes' second part?
A) Tarragona
B) Argamasilla de Alba
C) Tordesillas
D) Barcelona
  • 65. By late July 1614, how far had Cervantes likely progressed in his writing of Part Two?
A) The conclusion
B) Chapter LIX
C) Chapter X
D) He had not started yet
  • 66. In which region of Spain does the story of Don Quixote take place?
A) Andalusia
B) La Mancha
C) Catalonia
D) Castile
  • 67. Which province is suggested as the potential location for the comarca of Campo de Montiel?
A) Toledo
B) Valencia
C) Ciudad Real
D) Madrid
  • 68. What does the protagonist keep as a pet for racing?
A) A cat
B) A hunting dog
C) A horse
D) A greyhound
  • 69. Which ancient Greek author is compared to the subject of the town rivalry?
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Homer
D) Socrates
  • 70. Who led the academic team that identified Villanueva de los Infantes as the village?
A) Jorge Luis Borges
B) Cide Hamete
C) John Ormsby
D) Francisco Parra Luna
  • 71. In what year did academics deduce the location of the village?
A) 1998
B) 2010
C) 2004
D) 2001
  • 72. What movement put the Spanish Roman Catholic Church on the defensive?
A) The Renaissance
B) The Spanish Inquisition
C) The Enlightenment
D) The Protestant Reformation
  • 73. What happened to the hidalgo class during this period?
A) They were granted more land
B) They were completely abolished
C) They were gaining more power
D) They were losing relevance
  • 74. In what year did the Norwegian Nobel Institute conduct a study regarding the greatest work of fiction?
A) 2002
B) 2010
C) 1615
D) 1605
  • 75. How many countries were represented by writers in the 2002 Norwegian Nobel Institute study?
A) 100
B) 400
C) 55
D) 1100
  • 76. What is the meaning of the word 'tilt' in the context of the idiom 'tilting at windmills'?
A) Turning
B) Leaning
C) Falling
D) Jousting
  • 77. Which deep-sea amphipod species was named after the character Dulcinea?
A) Dulcibella camanchaca
B) Lohuecotitan pandafilandi
C) Quijote cervantesi
D) Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra
  • 78. In what year was the genuine second part of the novel published?
A) 1605
B) 1617
C) 1614
D) 1615
  • 79. Approximately how many copies is the novel believed to have sold worldwide?
A) 70
B) 400
C) 1,100
D) More than 500 million
  • 80. Who collected the editions found in the Cervantes Collection at the State Library of New South Wales?
A) Conde de Lemos
B) Francisco de Robles
C) Ben Haneman
D) Cardinal Zapata
  • 81. Which work did Cervantes publish in 1613?
A) Novelas ejemplares
B) The exploits of Sancho Panza
C) Don Quixote Part II
D) Don Quixote Part I
  • 82. Who ordered the removal of a specific sentence regarding works of charity from future editions in 1632?
A) Francisco de Robles
B) Ben Haneman
C) The Conde de Lemos
D) Cardinal Zapata
  • 83. Which dinosaur was named after a minor character in the novel?
A) Quijote cervantesi
B) Lohuecotitan pandafilandi
C) Dulcibella camanchaca
D) Quijotidae
  • 84. What is the English adjective derived from the novel's title character?
A) Quixotic
B) Sanchian
C) Cervantean
D) Dulcibean
  • 85. When did the first English translation of Part II of Don Quixote appear?
A) 1620
B) 1700
C) 1618
D) 1612
  • 86. Which translation was dubbed "worse than worthless" by John Ormsby?
A) Smollett
B) Jervas
C) Motteux
D) Shelton
  • 87. Which 18th-century translation was posthumously released and known as the "Jarvis translation" due to a printer's error?
A) John Stevens
B) Pierre Antoine Motteux
C) Tobias Smollett
D) Charles Jervas
  • 88. What is the original Spanish phrase often mistranslated as "The proof of the pudding is in the eating"?
A) the pudding is ready
B) time will never tell
C) you will see when the eggs are fried
D) the proof is in the baking
  • 89. Who reviewed Edith Grossman's translation and called it a "major literary achievement"?
A) John Ormsby
B) Carlos Fuentes
C) Burton Raffel
D) Samuel Putnam
  • 90. Which translator spent 26 years working on a translation released in 2006?
A) Burton Raffel
B) Gerald J. Davis
C) James H. Montgomery
D) Tom Lathrop
  • 91. Who published a translation in 2011 via Lulu.com?
A) Edith Grossman
B) John D. Rutherford
C) Gerald J. Davis
D) Diana de Armas Wilson
  • 92. What is the primary reason the Jervas translation was incorrectly named the "Jarvis translation"?
A) A deliberate pseudonym
B) A printer's error
C) A desire to sound more English
D) A mistranslation of the author's name
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