Characters
This character is the main hero of the story who imagines himself a knight
Who is Don Quixote?
Don Quixote imagines these large structures are fearsome giants.
What are windmills?
Don Quixote often confuses fantasy with this.
What is reality?
The story takes place in this European country.
What is Spain?
This author wrote Don Quixote.
Who is Miguel de Cervantes?
He is Don Quixote’s loyal squire who rides a donkey.
Who is Sancho Panza?
Don Quixote believes this everyday item is a magical helmet.
What is a barber's basin?
What are the three things Don Quixote needs when he is preparing to become a knight?
What is horse, armor, and a lady of his dreams?
Why did the innkeeper tell Don Quixote that the "chapel" was being repaired and the dubbing ceremony had to be outside?
What is he wanted to make fun of him and have everyone see it?
Don Quixote was first published in this century.
What is the 17th century?
This is the name Don Quixote gives to the lady he imagines as his noble love.
Who is Dulcinea?
Sancho Panza dreams of receiving this as a reward for helping Don Quixote.
What is an island?
Sancho Panza often represents this quality, compared to Don Quixote’s idealistic ideas about life.
What is realistic?
This region of Spain is where most of Don Quixote’s adventures happen.
What is La Mancha?
What genre is the book Don Quixote?
Fiction/Novel
This character is Don Quixote’s old, tired horse.
Who is Rocinante?
Don Quixote mistakes an inn for this type of grand building.
A palace.
Explain one time when Don Quixote was meddling.
What is trying to free the boy, trying to free the prisoners, attacking the wineskins, etc?
In the towns Don Quixote visits, most people treat him with this emotion.
What is amusement/laughter?
Cervantes was writing at the same time as this famous English playwright.
Who is William Shakespeare?
These people in Don Quixote’s village think he’s crazy and try to burn his books.
Who are the priest and the barber?
Don Quixote is challenged to a duel by the Knight of the Wood." Who was the Knight of the Wood?
Who is Samson Caracuso?
What plan did the priest and the barber come up with to try and get Don Quixote to go home.
What is getting a women to pretend that she was a princess that needed to be saved be the great Don Quixote?
Don Quixote returns to this place after his adventures.
What is his home (or village?)
The phrase “tilting at windmills” comes from the book. What do you think it means?