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1. In what year was the first volume of "Don Quijote" published?
2. According to a line found in the prologue, why did Cervantes write Volume I of "Don Quijote"?
3. In 1615, Cervantes' second volume of "Don Quijote" was published. Just one year earlier, someone else had written a continuation of "Don Quijote" under which pseudonym?
4. In what language was "Don Quijote" written?
5. Which of the following is one of Don Quijote's characteristics which let us know that he is really more of an antihero and not the traditional hero?
6. What was the name of Don Quijote's faithful companion?
7. In probably one of his most famous adventures, Don Quijote mistakes a group of windmills for what?
8. Don Quijote lives in a fantasy world and sees reality as if he were living in a chivalric novel. Sancho Panza, however, sees things as they really are and watches out for Don Quijote. If Don Quijote represents fantasy, then Sancho Panza represents ___________?
9. Early in Volume I of Don Quijote, we see that Don Quijote's friends are trying to rid his library of the very books which caused him to go insane. It can be said that burning the books which are not acceptable is representative of what political and religious censorship of the time?
10. In the prologue of Volume I, Cervantes tells us that he is not the 'father' of "Don Quijote" but rather its what?
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