cervantes & shakespeare quizzes (1)

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Nombre del cuestionario: CERVANTES QUIZ

1. What is Cervantes' full surname?

2. Where was Cervantes born?

3. The nickname by which Cervantes was known was...

4. Who is not the author of Don Quixote?

A Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

B Alonso Fern€ndez de Avellaneda

C Francis Bacon

5. In which battle Miguel de Cervantes took part and was wounded?

6. Where was Miguel de Cervantes taken as a slave after pirates captured him in 1575?

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7. Which of the following tales is a part of Don Quixote of La Mancha?

A A Tale of Two Cities

B A Tale of ill advised curiosity

C A Tale of generosity

D A Tale of intrigue

8. Who is the squire of Don Quixote?

9. What is the name of the horse of Don Quixote?

10. Who is Don Quixote•s imaginary Lady?

11. Who defeats Don Quixote in a duel?

A Knight of the New Moon

B Knight of the Full Moon

C Knight of the White Moon

D Knight of the Yellow Moon

12. What are mistaken by Don Quixote for giants?

A Castles

B Inns

C Donkeys

D Windmills

13. In Cervantes' novel Don Quixote, who is Cide Hamete Benengeli?

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A a wealthy landowner

B the author of Don Quixote of which Cervantes translates

C the priest who burns books

D the translator of Don Quixote

14. What is Don Quixote's main quest in life?

Ato ruin as many marriages as possible

B to travel the world

C to make as many enemies as possible

D to revive the lost art of chivalry

15. Amadis Gaul is said to have written what?

A the first book of chivalry to be printed in Spain

B Don Quixote

C the first religious pamphlet to be printed in Spain

D a famous book of poetry

16. Don Quixote plans to do what when he retires?

A write his memoirs

B become a curate

C write a novel

D become a shepherd

17. Who is The Knight of the White Moon?

A Amadis Gaul

B Sampson Carrasco

C Sancho Panza

D Don Quixote

18. Don Quixote can be best described as?

A a prophet

B a tragi-comic hero

C a tragic hero

D an archetypical villain

19. Don Quixote is lauded as?

A one of the most influential Spanish literary works ever written.

B one of the best autobiographical works ever written

C one of the best epistolary novels ever written.

D one of the worst Spanish works ever written.

20. What does 'Quixotic' mean?

A naivete and innocence

B romantic practicality

C the foolish pursuit of impossible ideals

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D none of the above

21. What does the idiom 'tilting at windmills' mean?

A to make imaginary friends

B to fight imaginary enemies

C to be impotent against your enemies

Dto fight the forces of nature

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6. What is the only Shakespeare play whose title contains an English place name?

7. What theatre in London was Shakespeare associated with?

8. What century(ies) did Shakespeare write his plays in?

9. Who did Shakespeare marry and how many children did they have?

10. How many English words did Shakespeare actually invent?

11. How many plays and sonnets did Shakespeare write?

12. Mark two Shakespearen tragedies

A Romeo and Juliet

B Much Ado about Nothing

C Hamlet

D Midsummernight's Dream

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