SAT Test 2 Passages 1-3. Reading Test 65 MINUTES | Download To Score An A
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"Hush, friend Sancho" replied Don Quixote, "thefortunes of war more than any other are liable tofrequent fluctuations; and moreover I think, and it isthe truth, that the same sage Friston*** who carri ed off60my study and books, has turned these giants into millsin order to rob me of the glory of v...
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Questions 1-10 are based on the following passage. and not giants he was going to attack. He, however, was
so positive they were giants that he neither heard the
This passage is excerpted from Miguel de Cervantes, Don
30 cries of Sancho, nor perceived, near as he was, what
Quixote, originally published in 1605 and translated by John
they were.
Ormsby in 1885.
"Fly not, cowards and vile beings;' he shouted, "for
At this point they came in sight of thirty or forty a single knight attacks you:'
windmills that are on that plain. A slight breeze at this moment sprang up, and the
"Fortune;' said Don Quixote to his squire, as soon 35 great vanes began to move.
Line as he had seen them, "is arranging matters for us better "Though ye flourish more arms than the giant
5 than we could have hoped. Look there, friend Sancho Briarus**, ye have to reckon with me!" exclaimed Don
Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants rise up, Quixote, when he saw this.
all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and So saying, he commended himself with all his
with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes. 40 heart to his lady Dulcinea, imploring her to support
For this is righteous warfare, and it is God's good him in such a peril. With lance braced and covered by
10 service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the his shield, he charged at Rocinante's fullest gallop and
earth:' attacked the first mill that stood in front of him. But as
"What giants?" said Sancho Panza. he drove his lance-point into the sail, the wind whirled
"Those you see there:' answered his master, 45 it around with such force that it shivered the lance
"with the long arms, and some have them nearly two to pieces. It swept away with it horse and rider, and
15 leagues* long:' they were sent rolling over the plain, in sad condition
"Look, your worship;' said Sancho. "What we see indeed. Sancho hastened to his assistance as fast as his
there are not giants but windmills, and what seem to ass could go, and when he came up found him unable
be their arms are the vanes that turned by the wind 50 to move, with such a shock had Rocinante fallen with
make the millstone go:' him.
20 "It is easy to see:' replied Don Quixote, "that you "God bless me!" said Sancho, "did I not tell your
are not used to this business of adventures. Those are worship to mind what you were about, for they were
giants, and if you are afraid, away with you out of here only windmills? And no one could have made any
and betake yourself to prayer, while I engage them in 55 mistake about it but one who had mills of the same
fierce and unequal combat:' kind in his head:'
25 So saying, he gave the spur to his steed Rocinante,
heedless of the cries his squire Sancho sent after him,
warning him that most certainly they were windmills CONTINUE
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