Quiz 20

Question 1

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

Answer 1

10 days

Question 2

In what year did the Anglican Church (& England) finally adopt the Gregorian calendar?

Answer 2

1752

Question 3

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

Answer 3

His name is mugiel and it is saint Michaels day

Question 4

Why did Cervantes [apparently] have to leave Spain in 1569?

Answer 4

For fighting with a man named Antonio and fear of being arrested

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Lepanto

Question 6

what job did Cervantes get with the navy in 1587?

Answer 6

collecting supplies for the invisible Armada

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Armadas 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

what is constituted by those books of chivalry

Question 11

what did Dom Quixote add to his name to make “very plain his lineage”?

Answer 11

de la Mancha

Question 12

what “terrible thought assailed” Don Quixote?

Answer 12

he was never 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 knight need besides extra shirts & ointment?

Answer 14

money

Question 15

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

Answer 15

removed it from the trough and tossed it away

Question 16

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

Answer 16

the accounting book

Question 17

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

Answer 17

knighthood

Question 18

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

Answer 18

to burn the books

Question 19

As what does Don Quixote interpret the windmills to be?

Answer 19

Giants

Question 20

With what was Don Quixote “nourishing himself”?

Answer 20

Savorous memories

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Arab Nation

Question 22

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

Answer 22

True

Question 23

Sancho hears nothing except what?

Answer 23

the bleating of sheep

Question 24

What job/crime does Don Quixote say “is most necessary in a well-ordered state”?

Answer 24

being a pimp

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Our will

Question 26

By the sound of what is “Don Quixote revived”?

Answer 26

Sancho’s cries and moans

Question 27

According to Sancho, “there is nothing in the world that is ore pleasant than being a _______ man”

Answer 27

respected

Question 28

What type of Christians are supposedly “guided by omens”?

Answer 28

fools

Question 29

what is Sancho bringing home with him this time, “which is the thing that matters”?

Answer 29

money

Question 30

why does the curate ask the notary to witness the fact of Don Quixote’s death?

Answer 30

to prevent false ressurection