Ace Your GED-Reading GED Reading Exam

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Although Don Quixote is a somewhat comic figure, he is nevertheless characterized as a man who is devoted to duty and faithful to his sworn cause of helping others. Given this background information and the excerpt, why might readers be deeply moved by the character of Don Quixote?

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Suppose one day Florence becomes a mother and her own children want to leave home. Based on her character as revealed in this excerpt, how might she react?

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What does Rose’s comment “Don’t look as if it was the end of the world, Sam!” (lines 55–56) suggest about her?

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The mother is described in two places in the poem: "Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me" (line 1) and "pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings" (line 4). What quality of the mother is emphasized in these lines?