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  The nickname by which Cervantes was known was: see if you know the answer
Answered: 135 times
Correct: 45 times (19.4%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 90 times (38.8%)
Skipped: 97 times (41.8%)
  If Cervantes had followed in his father’s footsteps, see if you know the answer
Answered: 86 times
Correct: 25 times (17.4%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 61 times (42.4%)
Skipped: 58 times (40.3%)
  Cervantes died satisfied that his literary reputation would rest forever on: see if you know the answer
Answered: 143 times
Correct: 28 times (12.2%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 115 times (50.2%)
Skipped: 86 times (37.6%)
  Cervantes went to Italy and became a soldier probably... see if you know the answer
Answered: 124 times
Correct: 37 times (17.5%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 87 times (41.2%)
Skipped: 87 times (41.2%)
  Which of his novels did Cervantes repeatedly promise to continue, even shortly before his death?
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Answered: 126 times
Correct: 43 times (20.5%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 83 times (39.5%)
Skipped: 84 times (40.0%)
  If Don Quixote was indeed conceived in a prison in Seville, why was Cervantes there?
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Answered: 231 times
Correct: 144 times (39.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 87 times (23.7%)
Skipped: 136 times (37.1%)
  In Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote attacks the windmills because he thinks they are what?
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Answered: 5007 times
Correct: 2862 times (50.3%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 2145 times (37.7%)
Skipped: 686 times (12.0%)
  In what year was the second half of Don Quixote originally published by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra? see if you know the answer
Answered: 482 times
Correct: 177 times (19.4%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 305 times (33.5%)
Skipped: 429 times (47.1%)
  How many expeditions does Don Quixote make without Sancho Panza? see if you know the answer
Answered: 410 times
Correct: 176 times (22.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 234 times (29.3%)
Skipped: 389 times (48.7%)
  Two of the most famous writers of all-time are believed to have died on the same day - which two? see if you know the answer
Answered: 815 times
Correct: 406 times (36.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 409 times (36.9%)
Skipped: 292 times (26.4%)
  As a writer, 19th century philosopher and literary critic George Henry Lewes is probably best known for his biography of ... see if you know the answer
Answered: 88 times
Correct: 33 times (22.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 55 times (38.2%)
Skipped: 56 times (38.9%)
  Who was described by Virginia Woolf, in one of her essays, as "one of the most consistent satirists in the whole of literature"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 130 times
Correct: 59 times (35.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 71 times (42.3%)
Skipped: 38 times (22.6%)
  Which one of these titles is NOT by (the fictional) Herbert Quain, according to Jorge Luis Borges in his story, "A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 41 times
Correct: 10 times (11.5%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 31 times (35.6%)
Skipped: 46 times (52.9%)

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