Quiz 20

Question 1

How many days did Pope Gregory 13th suppress in his reform of the calendar in 1582?

Answer 1

10

Question 2

In what year did the Anglican Church and England finally adopt the Gregorian calendar?

Answer 2

1752

Question 3

Why is it probable that Cervantes was born on September 29?

Answer 3

because 9/29 is St. Michael’s day

Question 4

Why did Cervantes have to leave Spain in 1569?

Answer 4

because a warrant was issued for his arrest

Question 5

In what “crucial battle” did Cervantes receive three gunshot wounds?

Answer 5

Battle of Lepanto

Question 6

What job Cervantes get with the navy in 1587?

Answer 6

requisitioning and collecting supplies for the “invincible Armada”

Question 7

What event in 1588 signaled the beginning of Spain’s decline and disillusionment?

Answer 7

Armada’s defeat against England

Question 8

As Spanish power and prosperity declined, what segments of its society became stigmatized and suspect?

Answer 8

Converscos and Moriscos

Question 9

T/F: The narrator of Don Quixote introduces himself as a sterile and uncultivated wit

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Undermining “the ill-founded edifice” of what, says the author, is the basic purpose of the book?

Answer 10

chivalry

Question 11

What did Don Quixote add to his name to make “very plain his lineage”?

Answer 11

de la macha

Question 12

What “terrible thought” assailed Don Quixote?

Answer 12

he had never been formally dubbed a knight

Question 13

“and so when he caught sight of the inn, it at once became” what in Don Quixote’s eyes?

Answer 13

a castle

Question 14

According to the innkeeper, what “indispensable” thing, assumed by writers of romance, did knights need besides extra shirts and ointment?

Answer 14

money

Question 15

What did the muleteer do with Don Quixote’s armor?

Answer 15

toss it from the trough

Question 16

From what book did the innkeeper read as he dubbed Don Quixote a knight?

Answer 16

Account book

Question 17

Why did the innkeeper not ask Don Quixote for the price of lodging?

Answer 17

he was glad to be rid of him

Question 18

by the order of what as Don Quixote tells the boy, will the farmer obey him?

Answer 18

knighthood

Question 19

According to the curate, for what shall they have “a public auto da fe”?

Answer 19

works of chivalric romance

Question 20

As what does Don Quixote interpret the windmills?

Answer 20

lawless giants

Question 21

With what was Don Quixote “nourishing himself”?

Answer 21

a savarous memory

Question 22

According to the narrator, what “nation is known for its lying propensities”?

Answer 22

Arab

Question 23

T/F: Don Quixote spoke so earnestly that Sancho actually came to believe the dust clouds are from approaching armies

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Sancho hears nothing except what?

Answer 24

the bleating of sheep

Question 25

What job/crime does Don Quixote say "is most necessary in a well-ordered stat"?

Answer 25

that of a pimp

Question 26

What is it according to Don Quixote, that "is free and no herb or charm can force it"?

Answer 26

our will

Question 27

By the sound of what is Don Quixote revived?

Answer 27

sancho's cries and moans

Question 28

What does Sancho's wife expect him to have "brought me from all your squirings"?

Answer 28

a new cloak or shoes for the little ones

Question 29

According to Sancho, "there is nothing in the world that is more pleasant than being a ________ man"?

Answer 29

respected

Question 30

What type of Christians are supposedly "guided by omens"?

Answer 30

fools

Question 31

What is Sancho bringing home with him this time, "which is the thing that matters most"?

Answer 31

money

Question 32

Why does the curate ask the notary to witness the fact of Don Quixote's death?

Answer 32

to prevent false resurrection