Q 01/05
A) Miguel de Cervantes
B) Lope de Vega
C) Federico García Lorca
D) Gabriel García Márquez
Answer · why
It came out in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, and is often called the first modern novel.
Q 02/05
A) Alonso Quixano
B) Sancho Panza
C) Cide Hamete
D) Diego de Miranda
Answer · why
He is a hidalgo nearing 50 who lives with his niece and housekeeper in an unnamed village of La Mancha.
Q 03/05
A) Reading chivalric romances
B) A blow to the head
C) Grief for his lost wife
D) A gypsy's curse
Answer · why
His niece, housekeeper, priest and barber later burn most of his library and blame a wizard for walling it up.
Q 04/05
A) Rocinante
B) Dapple
C) Babieca
D) Bucephalus
Answer · why
The name puns on 'rocín', a workhorse or nag: he was 'a hack before' and is now the 'first and foremost' of hacks.
Q 05/05
A) A pork-salting farm girl
B) A visiting duchess
C) His own niece
D) The innkeeper's daughter
Answer · why
Aldonza Lorenzo never appears in the book; Dulcinea exists only in his head.
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