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Grade 8 · World literature

World literature quiz for grade 8: Cervantes: Don Quixote

This quiz helps revise “Cervantes: Don Quixote” in World literature for grade 8. It has 25 questions in five categories: Author & Editions, Hero & Ideal, Squire & Home, Adventures & Errors, Meaning & Form. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 13–14
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Cervantes: Don Quixote

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Author & Editions

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Which pictured Spanish writer authored Don Quixote?

  2. 200

    In what language was the novel originally written?

  3. 300

    In which city did…

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  4. 400

    In what year…

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  5. 500

    In what year…

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Hero & Ideal

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What is the name of the pictured gaunt horse the hero chooses for his travels?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What name does the hero give the pictured peasant Aldonza Lorenzo as his lady?

  3. 300

    What kind of knight…

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  4. 400

    What is the hero's…

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  5. 500

    What Spanish term describes…

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Squire & Home

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What is the pictured peasant's name, who became the hero's squire?

  2. 200

    What animal did the squire usually ride on his travels?

  3. 300

    What office did the…

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  4. 400

    What was the name…

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  5. 500

    What was the mock…

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Adventures & Errors

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What did the hero mistake the pictured windmills for before charging them?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What did the hero mistake the pictured roadside inn for on his first journey?

  3. 300

    What did the hero…

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  4. 400

    What legendary object did…

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  5. 500

    What did the hero…

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Meaning & Form

  1. 100

    Which Spanish region does the hero add to his knightly name?

  2. 200

    What popular literary genre does the novel parody?

  3. 300

    What does the squire…

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  4. 400

    What is the name…

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  5. 500

    What adjective from the…

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