CKLA: Unit 4 Enrichment Practice Quiz

1. Part A: The first chapter refers to "gentlemen of the old school." This phrase means:

• men who attended a school that no longer exists
• men who live in a household with other people
• men who have habits and practices that are old-fashioned or from another time
• men who paid the household expenses

1. Part B: The phrase that provides a clue as to the meaning of "gentlemen of the old school" is...

• once upon a time
• his household consisted of an elderly housekeeper, a niece of his under twenty and a handyman
• who keep an ancient lance and shield hung up in the hall, and maintain a riding horse and a hunting dog
• about three-fourths of the income of this particular gentleman went in household expenses

2. Describe what Quixania did to make his ancestor's old armor suitable for use. Type your answer in a complete sentence.

3. Who is Quixiana?

• Sancho Panza
• Samson
• the hadyman
• Don Quixote

4. What are the two reasons Don Quixote gives Sancho Panza to explain why he is going to attack the windmills that he mistakes for giants?

5. At the end of this excerpt, Sancho Panza decides that it was "pleasant enough to go around the country seeking adventures, even if they might be dangerous to others." Whom might Sancho be thinking of as "others"? Who had a dangerous experience in the adventure described in this excerpt?

6. Why did the barber place a basin on his head?

7. Sancho Panza asks Don Quixote if he may exchange his donkey for the donkey abandoned by the barber. What does Don Quixote say and how does his response demonstrate Don Quixote's desire to follow the code of chivalry?

8. Describe how Sancho took advantage of the fact that three peasant girls happened to come riding by while he was trying to decide what to tell Don Quixote about his search Dulcinea.

9. Sancho Panza tells Don Quixote that he saw a princess and two ladies mounted on three "belfries." Don Quixote corrects Sancho, saying "You mean palfreys, Sancho." Based on the context, the word palfreys probably means:

• bell towers
• sunbeams
• horses
• a gold and diamond carriage